§ Mr. George Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will take steps to ensure that
Principal United Kingdom exports to Iraq and Iran £ million (fob) 1979 1980 1981 1982 *1983 (a) Iraq General industrial machinery (74) 24 32 42 88 51 Telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing equipment (76) 10 18 25 85 51 Road vehicles (78) 16 19 55 95 48 Electrical equipment (77) 8 19 29 51 33 Power generating machinery (71) 11 15 84 87 29 Specialised industrialmachinery (72) 23 46 124 86 23 Instruments and apparatus for measuring, testing sand control (87) 7 11 17 27 20 Miscellaneous metal manufactures (69) 21 19 45 79 16 Iron and steel (67) 15 17 22 27 15 Medicinal and pharmaceutical products (54) 9 14 18 19 13 Other 57 111 163 230 101 Total 201 322 624 874 400 (b) Iran Road vehicles (78) 52 114 118 88 152 Power generating machinery (71) 25 50 53 51 117 General industrial machinery (74) 21 23 20 24 57 Iron and steel (67) 5 4 8* 7 29 Specialised industrial machinery (72) 12 21 20 14 28 Electrical equipment (77) 11 29 14 9 23 Medicinal and pharmaceutical products (54) 16 34 46 24 23 Petroleum and petroleum products (33) 0 1 2 2 18 Instruments and apparatus for measuring, testing and control (87) 6 7 7 8 13 Miscellaneous metal manufactures (69) 8 10 6 8 13 Other 75 101 108 99 158 Total 232 393 403 334 630 * Provisional. Source
United Kingdom Overseas Trade Statistics (Table V).
Notes:
(a) signifies trade of less than £500,000.
(b) references in parenthesis after the descriptions in the first column of the table are to the divisions of the standard international trade classification (revision 2).
owing to rounding, there may be slight discrepancies between the totals shown and the sum of constituent items.
10WKleanaid, a company registered in Scotland, provides to the registrar of companies accounts for the period since December 1981 when last they were filed.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherNo company of this name can be traced on the Scottish register. There is, however, a company registered under the name of Kleenaid, in which I declare a family interest, which filed accounts for 1982 on 23 February.