§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1956 the value of (a) imports and (b) exports of manufactures as a percentage to one place of decimals of (i) gross domestic product and (ii) manufacturing output.
§ Mr. PattieAvailable information is given in the following tables:
(a)—By value expressed as a percentage of GDP* Imports† Exports† 1963 5.2 11.7 1964 6.0 11.4 1965 5.9 11.5 1966 6.1 11.6 1967 6.8 10.9 1968 8.2 12.4 1969 8.3 13.2 1970 8.4 13.4 1971 8.1 13.3 1972 9.1 12.4 1973 11.4 13.5 1974 13.6 16.0 1975 11.4 14.9 1976 12.4 16.3 1977 13.5 17.6 1978 13.5 16.5 1979 14.4 15.8 1980 12.8 15.2 1981 12.0 13.8 1982 12.7 13.5 1983 14.1 13.4 1974 15.9 14.6 1985 15.9 15.0 * GDP(E) market prices. † Balance of payments basis, standard international trade classification 5–8. No consistent trade series is available for the period prior to 1963.
(b)—By value expressed as a percentage of manufacturing output* Imports† Exports† 1978 26.0 26.1 1979 27.5 25.1 1980 26.1 26.5 1981 28.0 27.4 1982 29.8 27.3 1983 33.1 26.6 1984 35.9 28.4 * Principal product sales of manufacturing industries in the United Kingdom. † Standard industrial classification 2–4. No data is available before 1978. Due to the different classification of the manufacturing sector the two tables are not directly comparable.