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14. Mr. Fatchett

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the latest manufacturing output figures.

22. Mr. Wareing

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the latest manufacturing output figures.

Mr. Butcher

The latest figures on manufacturing output are very encouraging and the prospects are good. In the three months to November output was 1½ per cent. higher than in the previous three months, 14 per cent. above the trough in 1981 and well on course to meet the Industry Act forecast of 4 per cent. growth in 1987.

34. Sir David Price

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what was the value of the total output of United Kingdom industry in 1986; what was the comparable figure in real terms in 1982; and what was the percentage difference.

Mr. Butcher

Manufacturing output in the first 11 months of 1986 was 104.1, based on 1980 equal to 100; this compares with 94.2 in 1982, an increase of more than 10 per cent.