§ Mr. Martenasked the Secretary of State for Trade what has been the balance of visible trade with the United Kingdom's Common Market partners for the last 12 months and the balance for invisibles
§ Mr. Meacher,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 16th November 1978; Vol. 958, c. 337], gave the following information
In accordance with established practice to refer Members to published information where this is readily accessible, I advise the hon. Member that figures for 1977—the latest 12-month period for which information is available for both visibles and invisibles—are given in table 14.1 of "United Kingdom Balance of Payments, 1967–77". Figures of the United Kingdom's visible trade with EEC up to the first half of 1978 were published in table 4 of the article "United Kingdom trade in the second quarter of 1978" which appeared in "Trade and Industry" on 8th September 1978. Copies of these publications are available in the House of Commons Library.