§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for the principal industrial countries the estimated dollar price of their exports of manufactures in October, based on trend extrapolations and such other information as is available, at the rates of exchange which prevailed on 24 October 1980, the trade weights which he uses for calculating relative export prices, and the relative export price for the United Kingdom calculated on these figures.
§ Mr. TebbitOn the first part of the question, as my right hon. Friend has said before, he prefers to leave such extrapolations to the hon. Member.
The trade weights currently used in calculating relative export prices are given in table F2 of the Monthly Review of External Trade Statistics, while table F3 gives latest estimates of United Kingdom relative export prices.