§ Mr. Marlowasked the Minister for Trade what has been the level in volume and value terms of United Kingdom steel exports for each of the last four years and each month subsequent to the latest annual accounting period.
§ Mr. Peter ReesThe available information is as follows:
Steel Exports, 1978–1982 Weight, thousand tonnes value,£ million fob 1978 4,246 924 1979 4,429 1,080 1980 2,674 770 January, February, September-December, 1981 1,836 507 April 1982 376 116 May 1982 315 99 Source: Overseas Trade Statistics, SITC (R2) Groups 672–675 inclusive, Sub-groups 678.2-.4 inclusive and 679.3, Item 679.42 and parts of items 676.01, 02 and 791.99.
Notes
1. Owing to last year's Civil Service industrial strike figures for the period March to August 1981 are not available.
2. True volume (i.e., deflated value) data are not available at this level of detail.