§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will give the value of fish imported into the United Kingdom from France in each of the last 18 months.
§ Mr. ParkinsonThe information for fresh—live or dead—and chilled or frozen fish—excluding fillets—is as follows:
£thousand cif September 1978 62 October 1978 79 November 1978 121 December 1978 128 January 1979 68 February 1979 55 March 1979 486 April 1979 646 May 1979 190 June 1979 141 July 1979 70 August 1979 19 September 1979 80 October 1979 60 November 1979 198 December 1979 70 January 1980 92 February 1980 197 Source: UK Overseas Trade Statistics (SITC(Rev 2) Sub-groups 034.1 and .2).
Note: the effects of industrial disputes may have distorted the figures for individual months in the period January-July 1979.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will publish in the Official Report the figures for imported wet fish and frozen fish of the different edible species for the first three months of the current year, compared with 1979.
§ Mr. ParkinsonDetails of imports of fresh, chilled and frozen fish—excluding fillets—are published in table IV of the March issues of theOverseas Trade 15W Statistics of the United Kingdom for 1979 and 1980 under SITC(R2) sub-groups 034.1 and 034.2. The genus or species to which the individual eight-digit code numbers under these sub-groups relate is set out on pages 20–22 of the guide to the classification for Overseas Trade Statistics 1980. Copies of these publications are in the Library. Figures for the early months of 1979 may have been distorted by the effects of industrial disputes and must be interpreted with caution.