HC Deb 29 April 1970 vol 800 cc323-4W
Mr. Wingfield Digby

asked the President of the Board of Trade what assessment he has made of the trade balance with New Zealand, for the latest convenient year, taking into account visibles and invisibles and the difference between imports cost, insurance and freight and exports free on board.

CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AT UNITED KINGDOM AERODROMES BOARD OF TRADE AERODROMES
1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67
Aberdeen 52,588 6,849 8,114 12,065 102,722
Belfast 1,048,685 540,907 386,402 278,584
Benbecula 10,951 13,489 6,676 8,973 4,715
Edinburgh 33,560 49,157 108,027 77,529 26,834
Glasgow (Renfrew) 26,655 27,325 5,763 32,788 1,280
Inverness 14,882 11,355 4,916 5,856 678
Islay 2,253 3,685 4,843 17,140 415,899
Kirkwall 7,576 1,967 3,261 4,099 455,985
Lands End and St. Marys 14 9,381 6,658 1,902
Machrihanish 4,037 5,892 Transferred to Ministry of Defence
Stornoway 7,318 10,975 23,832 15,959 24,528
Sumburgh 10,999 5,379 7,629 2,672 43,122
Tiree 4,347 1,572 4,241 10,820 6,194
Wick 18,630 5,416 8,039 2,614 598

Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody:

Figures for the trade balance are not available for individual countries. Figures of imports c.i.f. and exports f.o.b. are published, but the difference between them is not a good measure of the visible trade balance because, inter alia, of the difference in the bases of valuation.