§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Industry whether he will update the figures published in the Official Report in answer to a written question from the hon. Member for Grimsby on 26 November 1979 concerning production and exports of non-electrical machinery.
§ Mr. David MitchellThe information requested, together with revisions to that supplied earlier, is given in the following tables:
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TABLE—VALUE OF GROSS OUTPUT AT CURRENT PRICES* United Kingdom Thousand million pounds Federal Republic of Germany† Thousand million marks France‡ Thousand million francs Italy║ Thousand million lire United States Thousand million dollars Japan Thousand million yen 1975 (R) 9.16 84.3 (R) 80.5 6,904 99.4 11,658 1976 10.65 94.1 86.6 8,590 110.7 12,815 1977 13.74 ¶108.1 93.3 10,626 130.4 13,805 * 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. † Data covers local units employing 10 or more. Sales of merchanted goods are excluded. ‡ Data includes instrument engineering goods. ║ Data covers enterprises employing 20 or more. ¶ Total turnover.
TABLE—VALUE OF EXPORTS* Million United States Dollars United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany France Italy United States Japan 1978 11,185 27,663 9,401 8,182 21,806 12,655 1979 13,128 31,357 10,999 9,908 26,084 13,179 * Coverage is that given by divisions 71–74 (less group 716) of the standard industrial trade classification (rev 2) which relates broadly to nonelectrical machines The coverage is somewhat narrower than that of division 71 of the standard industrial trade classification (rev 1) which was used for the data supplied in answering the previous question.