§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will bring up to date the information on the output of intermediate goods, less oil, and so on, given in the written reply to the hon. Member for Grimsby on 14 July 1980, Official Report, column 413.
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§ Mr. Ian Stewart[pursuant to his reply, 14 July 1986]: The figures requested are shown in the following table:
Index of output of the production industries intermediate goods industries excluding oil, gas, electricity and water industries* 1980=100 Not stock adjusted† Stock adjusted† 1969 118.5 — 1970 116.8 — 1971 113.9 — 1972 114.3 — 1973 124.3 — 1974 115.8 — 1975 107.5 — 1976 111.2 — 1977 111.2 — 1978 111.2 112.1 1979 — 113.1 1980 — 100.0 1981 — 94.9 1982 — 94.1 1983 — 97.7 1984 — 93.5 1985 — 99.5 * The oil, gas, electricity and water industries comprising classes 13, 14, 16 and 17 of the Standard Industrial Classification 1980, which are part of the "Intermediate goods industries" category published in the Monthly Digest of Statistics, have been excluded from this table. † Since the index of production was rebased in 1983, the estimates have included an adjustment for changes in stocks to compensate for the use of sales indicators.