§ Mr. Maurice Macmillanasked the President of the Board of Trade (1)what was the gap for October between seasonally adjusted imports, c.i.f. values, and seasonally adjusted exports and reexports, f.o.b. values, excluding imports of United States aircraft and exports of components, including an estimate of export under-recording and an estimate of export over-recording due to lodgements of documents that showed exports at c.i.f. values rather than at f.o.b. values;
(2)what was the gap for October between seasonally adjusted imports, c.i.f. values, and seasonally adjusted exports and re-exports, f.o.b. values, excluding imports of United States aircraft and exports of components including an estimate of export under-recording, an estimate of export over-recording, as well as an estimate of additional over-recording due to lodgements of documents based on exports made in previous months.
(3)what was the gap for October between imports, c.i.f. values, excluding United States aircraft, and exports and 218W re-exports, f.o.b. values, both seasonally adjusted;
(4)what is the estimai;ed effect on the balance of payments of the seasonally adjusted import and export and re-export figures, excluding United States aircraft and components, for October;
(5)what are the three separate estimated visible balances for October after allowing for the corrections to the export figures to be taken into consideration:
(6)what was the gap for October between seasonally adjusted imports, c.i.f. values, and seasonally adjusted exports and re-exports, f.o.b. values, excluding imports of United States aircraft and exports of components but including an estimate of export under-recording due to a failure to lodge documents;
(7)what was the gap for October between seasonally adjusted imports, c.i.f. values, and seasonally adjusted exports and re-exports, f.o.b. values, excluding imports of United States aircraft and exports of components;
(8)what was the gap for October between recorded imports, c.i.f. values excluding United States military aircraft, and recorded exports f.o.b. values and excluding exports of components for United States military aircraft to be reimported, plus re-exports.
§ Mrs. Gwyneth DunwoodySome of the figures asked for are not meaningful and are not calculated. Extensive information on trade in October was presented in the Press release issued on 13th November. The export of components purchased by the United Kingdom Government for incorporation in United States military aircraft 'was £1 million in October.