HC Deb 10 May 1982 vol 23 c184W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report the figures for steel costs and prices in terms of £ sterling, corresponding to those given in his reply dated 8 April, Official Report, c. 477–78.

Mr. Norman Lamont

The information is as follows:

the basis of known or estimated labour costs at the current rates of exchange between the £ sterling and the currencies in question.

Mr. Butcher

Information about labour costs required to answer this question is not readily available, if at all.