§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing for the last eight six-monthly periods for which figures are available, for each member state of the European Economic Community and for the European Economic Community as a whole (i) increase in nominal gross domestic product, (ii) increase in gross domestic product output volume, (iii) increase in gross domestic product price deflator, (iv) seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment, (v) surplus in trading goods and (vi) surplus in invisible goods.
§ Mr. Peter Rees[pursuant to his reply, 21 December 1984, c. 357]: The information required can be derived from the latest issue (No. 11, 1984) of "Eurostatistics—Data for short-term economic analysis" and CRONOS (the Eurostat data bank) for (i) increase in nominal gross domestic product, (ii) increase in gross domestic product volume, (iii) increase in gross domestic product price deflator, (v) surplus in trading goods and (vi) surplus in invisible transactions.
Item (iv) seasonally adjusted rates of unemployment for the EC and member countries are not readily available in the form requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, information on a quarterly basis for some member countries is available in OECD "Main Economic Indicators".
Copies of the publications referred to are available in the House of Commons Library. The Library also has access to the CRONOS databank.