§ Sir L. Plummerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the absolute figures relating to the percentage graphs which appear on pages 20, 21, 23, 29, and 44 of the publication Britain and the European Communities, in each case showing separately the growth each year and for each country since 1954.
§ Mr. BarberThe information is given in the following table:
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— 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 (£m.) Imports into EEC countries From World … … 5,928 6,861 7,974 8,844 8,172 8,677 10,579 From UK … … 348 372 438 459 420 476 548 Imports into EFTA countries (ex-cluding UK and Finland) From World … … 2,236 2,510 2,822 3,089 2,956 3,161 3,690 From UK … … 342 344 374 395 373 366 402 (Source: OECD Series IV and Series B) Imports by OECD, Europe From North America … … 1,616 2,151 2,503 2,901 2,301 2,177 3,060 From OECD, Europe … … 5,597 6,390 7,119 7,659 7,496 8,327 9,887 From Others … … 5,083 5,512 5,914 6,326 5,983 6,180 6,806 (Source: OECD General Statistics)
§ Sir L. Plummerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the absolute figures showing Commonwealth exports and imports in each year from 1954 to 1961, distinguishing the sources and destinations given in the graphs on pages 35 and 36 of the publication Britain and the European Communities.
§ Mr. BarberI refer the hon. Member to statistics of Commonwealth exports and imports published on pages 438-439 of the Board of Trade Journal on 2nd March, 1962. Statistics for 1961, on the same basis, will be published in theBoard of Trade Journal in the course of the next few weeks.
§ Sir L. Plummerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the actual totals of expenditure on social security on which the table on page 27 of the publication Britain and the European Communities was based; and whether the totals include expenditure on free education, including grants made through local authorities for free university education, on housing subsidies and on food subsidies.
§ Mr. BarberThe source of the table on page 27 ofBritain and the European Communities is the publication The Cost of Social Security 1949–1957 (International Labour Office, 1961). The same publication sets out actual totals of expenditure on social security in Table I of Part II, Comparative Tables. It sets out fully the definition of social security adopted for this survey by the International Labour Office, which is
taken as consisting of compulsory social insurance, certain voluntary social insurance schemes, family allowance schemes, special schemes for public employees, public health 38W services, public assistance and benefits granted to war victims.The items of expenditure listed by the hon. Member do not fall within this definition.