§ Miss Quennellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing, from the information available from international sources, the average annual increase in gross domestic product in France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States of America, Canada, Japan and Great Britain for the years 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970.
§ Mr. HigginsFigures for 1970 are not yet available. The table below gives the available figures for the other three years on the basis of data received from United Nations and O.E.C.D., adjusted in the348W case of the United Kingdom to bring it in line with the revised estimates published in the January, 1971, issue of Economic Trends.
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT AT CONSTANT MARKET PRICES PERCENTAGE CHANGE COMPARED WITH PREVIOUS YEAR 1967 1968 1969 France … … 4.8 4.9 7.9 West Germany … –0.2 7.0 7.8 Italy … … 6.9 7.4 5.1 Belgium … … 3.7 3.5 6.7 Netherlands … 5.5 7.2 5.2 United States of America … 2.8 4.6 2.9 Canada … … 3.1 4.8 Not available Japan … … 13.1 14.3 12.5 United Kingdom … 2.1 3.3 1.5