§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Industry what is his estimate of the percentage reduction in capacity in each sector of manufacturing industry as a result of closures since May 1979.
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§ Mr. MacGregorThe information requested is not available. Some indication of the extent of the under-utilisation of manufacturing capacity is given by the published analyses of the responses to the survey by the Confederation of British Industry on industrial trends, copies of which are available in the library.