HC Deb 01 March 1978 vol 945 c269W
Mr. Lawson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to the Written Answer to the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Mr. Price), Official Report, 21st February, column 619, if he will republish the table showing, in an extra column, the annual

ANNUAL AVERAGE GROWTH RATES
Actual 1975–77 Scenario II 1975–79 Required 1977–79
Food … 2.8 4.3 6.3
Drink … 0.9 5.2 9.7
Tobacco … -2.5 3.1 8.9
Chemicals … 6.4 10.8 15.4
Ferrous Metals … 1.5 12.3 24.2
Non-Ferrous Metals … 0.2 8.3 17.0
Mechanical Engineering … -4.7 7.4 20.8
Instrument Engineering … -1.1 11.3 25.2
Electrical Engineering … 0.4 10.7 22.0
Motor Vehicles … 3.6 11.1 19.2
Other Metal Goods … 1.3 9.3 18.0
Textiles … -0.2 5.2 10.8
Clothing and Footwear … 3.2 3.5 3.8
Bricks and Cement … -2.2 0.9 4.0
Pottery and Glass … 3.1 9.8 16.9
Paper, Printing and Publishing … 3.3 9.1 15.2
Total Manufacturing … 0.7 7.9 15.6