§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information he has on the amount of beer, wine and spirits sold in the United Kingdom in the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available; and what were the comparable sales in the same 12 month period in each of the previous 10 years.
§ Mr. Peter Rees[pursuant to his reply, 24 April 1980, c. 273]: For monthly information about home consumption of alcoholic drinks, I refer my hon. Friend to table 6.14 and its predecessors in the " Monthly Digest of Statistics " series. Calendar year figures are given in table 8.81 of the Annual Abstract of Statistics (1980 Edition). There are copies in the Library of the House.