Telecommunications and Computer Industries

HC Deb 30 March 1965 vol 709 cc202-3W

35 and 36. Mr. Biffen

asked the Minister of Technology (1) what share of the total output of the United Kingdom telecommunications industry, at the most recent convenient date, was accounted for by central Government purchases, local authority purchases, and purchases by the nationalised industries, respectively;

(2) what share of the total output of the United Kingdom computer industry, at the most recent convenient date, was accounted for by central Government purchases, local authority purchases, and purchases by the nationalised industries, respectively.

Mr. Cousins

Statistics of public sector purchases are not at present collected in the detail asked for. I am examining whether, without a disproportionate expenditure of effort, it would be practicable to do so in future.