HC Deb 07 March 1984 vol 55 c594W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing trade with the European Economic Community and with the rest of the world in 1982 and in the first five months of 1983 in (a) acetaldehyde (2911 1300), (b) acetic acid (2914 1700), (c) sodium acetate (2914 2300), (d) Methyl salicylate and phenyl salicylate (salol) (2916 5500), (e) barbital (INN) and its salts (2925 4500), phenazone (INN) and aminophenazone (INN) (amidapyrin) and their derivatives other than propyhenzone (INN) (2935 4700 and 4900).

Mr. Kenneth Baker

The available information is as follows:

the United Kingdom achieved a substantial surplus on current account in each of the last four years. That is a record of which we can be proud.