§ Mr. J. H. Osbornasked the President of the Board of Trade what was the increase in raw material stocks, work in progress, and finished stocks held by manufacturing industry and in the service
INCREASES IN INDUSTRY'S STOCKS (£ million) Increase in Value of the physical increase book values At current prices At 1963 prices 1964 1969* 1964 1969* 1964 1969* Manufacturing industry, total of which … … 593 779 421 225 411 206 Materials and fuel … … 192 224 152 23 147 26 Work in progress … … 269 316 182 77 177 63 Finished goods … … 131 240 87 125 87 117 Distributive trades, total … … 223 164 146 8 141 16 Grand Total … … 815 943 567 233 552 222 *Provisional. Stocks held by the distributive trades are not analysed by type. No estimates are yet available for 1970. The comparative changes in volume between the two years are indicated by the value of the physical increase at constant 1963 prices.