§ Mr. Patrick Maitlandasked the President of the Board of Trade what information is available to him from reports of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation showing the growth of population and income per head of the countries forming the European Economic Community, taken together, and the non-sterling members of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation taken together, respectively, since the war and over a convenient period.
§ Sir D. EcclesInformation available from the various reports issued by the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation indicates that between 1950, the earliest post-war year for which reliable figures are available, and 1956 21W the population of the non-sterling group of O.E.E.C. countries grew by 6.3 per cent. and that of the European Economic Community grew by 5.1 per cent. In the same period gross national product per head of the population, at current market prices, grew by 67 per cent. in the non-sterling group of O.E.E.C. countries and by 73 per cent. in the European Economic Community.