§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the volume and value of mechanical engineering products produced and exported
TABLE 1 VOLUME INDICES OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION(a) 1975=100 United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany(b) France Italy United States Japan 1955 … … N.A. 51 N.A. 41 42 7 1960 … … 67 69 N.A. 57 47 7 1967 … … 88 80 65 83 85 55 1972 … … 92 102 89 90 89 99 1978 … … 96 106 N.A. N.A. 123 126 1979— First quarter … 99 98 N.A. N.A. 129 136 Second quarter … 97 115 N.A. N.A. 131 N.A.
TABLE 2 VALUE OF GROSS OUTPUT AT CURRENT PRICES(a) United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany(c) France(d) Italy(e) United States Japan £ million thousand million marks thousand million francs thousand million lire thousand million dollars thousand million yen 1963 … … 2,297 N.A. N.A. N.A. 34.2 1,903 1967 … … 3,503(f) 40.1(g) 55.4(f)(g) 1,739 53.0 3,580 1972 … … 4,755 68.4 50.2 3,155 69.9 7,782 1975 … … 10,170 84.3 75.5 6,904 99.4 11,658 Notes for above tables: (a) Coverage is that of Group 382 of the International Standard Industrial Classification which relates to non-electrical machinery excluding instrument engineering goods, unless otherwise stated. (b) Data excludes office, computing and accounting machinery. (c) Data covers local units employing 10 or more. Sales of merchanted goods are excluded. (d) Data includes instrument engineering goods. (e) Data covers enterprises employing 20 or more. (f) Data relates to 1968. (g) Including turnover taxes.
TABLE 3 VALUE OF EXPORTS(a) Million US dollars United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany France Italy United States Japan 1960 … … 1,993 2,255 563 516 3,324 222 1967 … … 2,856 4,952 1,407 1,516 5,951 928 1972 … … 5,135 10,552 3,138 3,156 9,545 3,084 1977 … … 10,615 25,339 8,698 7,383 22,231 10,096 (a) Coverage is that given by division 71 of the Standard Industrial Trade Classification (Rev. 1) which relates to non-electrical machinery.