HC Deb 12 November 1979 vol 973 cc405-6W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Trade whether he will circulate in the Official Report a table showing winners of the Queen's award for exports in each of the years 1973 to 1976 who were wholly or mainly engaged in manufacturing and whose trading accounts are published, showing the proportion exported each year from 1972 and in the latest half year, together with the trading profit as a percentage of sales.

Mr. Parkinson

No. To prepare such an analysis of published information would incur a disproportionate cost to public funds.