§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report one or more tables showing (a) in terms of the local currency and (b) in dollars at the latest—July—rate of exchange the export price of manufactures charged by the eight leading exporting countries in July, based on an extrapolation of the latest available information on the export price of manufactures in each of the countries concerned; how the price in dollars compares with the corresponding average in each of the years 1970 to 1978; and what in this last case was the ratio of the dollar price charged by each country on each occasion to that charged by West Germany on the basis that in each year the German price equals 100.
§ Sir Geoffrey Howeasked I regret that this question cannot be answered without disproportionate cost. A range of statistics for recent years relevant to the question is published monthly in the IMF's International Financial Statistics and the Department of Trade's Monthly Review of External Trade Statistics.