HC Deb 28 January 1986 vol 90 cc450-1W
Mr. Stuart Holland

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many firms represented the upper half of retail sales in the United Kingdom in 1983 and 1984.

Mr. Peter Morrison

The largest 121 individual companies accounted for one half of retail sales in Great Britain in 1983. It is provisionally estimated that the corresponding figure for 1984 was 113.