§ Mr. Trippierasked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will give details of imports of footwear from Poland and the Comecon trading bloc over the last five years.
§ Mr. Peter Rees[pursuant to his reply, 29 January 1982, c. 463]: The information for 1977–80 is as follows:
£ million cif 1977 1978 1979 1980 Poland 9.3 9.6 10.8 13.0 Rest of Comecon 13.2 10.7 15.2 14.3 SourceUnited Kingdom Overseas Trade Statistics, SITC(R1 and R2) Division 85.
NoteOwing to disruption resulting from the Civil Service pay dispute, information is not at present available for the calendar year 1981.