§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade whether he will revise the table attached to the monthly
268Whis replies, Official Report, 23 November 1979, columns 375–6, on imports and exports of motor vehicles.
§ Mr. ParkinsonThe information for the 12 months of 1979 is as follows:
and what proportion of United Kingdom washing machine sales these represent: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Japan France and the total for all other countries.
§ Mr. ParkinsonThe information requested is as follows:
frigerators to the United Kingdom in 1979, or that part of 1979 for which figures are available; and what proportion of United Kingdom refrigerator sales each of these represent.
§ Mr. ParkinsonThe information requested is as follows:
press notice on the trade figures to include oil among the erratic items.
§ Mr. ParkinsonNo. The items classified as "more erratic" are principally 269W those in which trade is extremely irregular and which tend to obscure the interpretation of the data. Trade in oil does not have these characteristics to the same degree; additionally, it is of greater significance in the economy. A specific analysis of trade in oil is given in Table 6 of the Press Notice. Further, in order to separate out the direct impact of oil in the monthly trade figures, table 7 gives some information on trade in goods other than oil and the more erratic items.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing imports and exports of gelatin and related products in each year since 1967 together with the terms of trade for manufacturers and the relative export price index for manufacturers.
§ Mr. ParkinsonThe information on relative export prices is published in table F3 of the February issue of the "Monthly Review of External Trade Statistics". The remaining information is as follows:
Trade in gelatin and related products* OTS basis Terms of trade index† for manufactures‡ 1975=100 Imports £ Exports £ 1967 1,195 3,213 103 1968 1,044 3.798 98 1969 1,184 4,060 97 1970 1,169 4,093 99 1971 1,514 3,901 103 1972 1,613 3,515 104 1973 2,773 4,810 96 1974 5,754 11,368 93 1975 4,658 7,489 100 1976 7,162 9,718 98 1977 8,455 13,959 100 1978 10,180 13,658 103 1979 10,875 14,975 105 * SITC(R) item 599.55; SITC(R2) item 592.23—from 1978. † Export unit value index as a percentage of the import unit value index. ‡ Sections 5–8.