§ Mr. Maxwell-Hyslopasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish table 1 of Command Paper No. 6703 showing the three entries, "Agricultural price index", "Import volume index", and "Retail price index" all adjusted to the same base year; and whether he will, in future, instruct that Table 1 of the annual review of agriculture shall be presented in a form in which these entries may be compared based on the same time scale.
§ Mr. BishopThe figures in Table 1 of Command 6703 appear in the form in which they are published by sponsoring Departments. I have taken note of the hon. Member's suggestion that there should be a change in the presentation of these entries in future Annual Review White Papers.
When the indices are re-based arithmetically to 1970=100, the results are as follows:
is to be discussed at the council meeting on 2nd February. It will be for the EDC to decide what further information it should publish about the progress of its work, but the House will be kept informed of developments in the industrial strategy programme.