HC Deb 03 June 1980 vol 985 cc636-7W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the value of pharmaceutical imports into the United Kingdom in each year since 1970; and what was the value of pharmaceutical exports from the United Kingdom for the same period.

Mr. Parkinson

The value of imports and exports of medicinal and pharmaceutical products from 1970 to 1978 is given in tables 12.6 and 125 respectively of the 1980 edition of the annual abstract of statistics and for 1979 in tables II and V of the December 1979 issue of the Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom, under SITC (R2) division 54. Copies of these publications are in the library.