HC Deb 21 May 1981 vol 5 c178W
Mr. Straw

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Osborn) Official Report, 15 April, column 199, if he will give his present estimates of rates paid by manufacturing industry in 1979, 1980, and 1981, and of these rate payments as a proportion of manufacturing costs, exclusive of rates and taxes, for these three years.

Mr. King

I regret that I cannot at present give any more up-to-date information than that contained in my answer of 15 April to my hon. Friend the member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Osborn)—[Vol 3 c. 199].