HC Deb 21 June 1977 vol 933 c469W
Mr. Hoyle

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report details, for the past three years, of the percentage of his Department's textile purchases spun and woven overseas, the square yards represented by such purchases, the value of the purchases and their country of origin.

Mr. Harold Walker

Purchases of textiles on behalf of my Department are made by the Property Services Agency. Appropriate figures of any such purchases will be included in the reply to my hon. Friend's similar Question addressed to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment.