§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the real and nominal exchange rate of the pound sterling and the percentage change in the last quarter of 1976 and the third quarter of 1984 against the (a) US dollar, (b) Japanese yen, (c) deutschemark, (d) French franc, (e) Italian lira, (f) Austrian schilling and (g) Dutch guilder.
§ Mr. FletcherI have been asked to reply.
Data for the third quarter of 1984 are incomplete.
The latest comparable information is in the table.
the VAT charged on particular supplies of goods and services, and information of this kind is therefore not directly available. Nor is it possible in this case to provide an estimate, as the data on consumers' expenditure, on which such an estimate would be based, are not sufficiently detailed.