Mr. John Mark Taylorasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the actual and the proportionate contributions to the United Kingdom's invisible earnings of the consulting engineering profession during the course of the last financial year.
§ Mr. John Patten[pursuant to his reply, 15 January 1987, c. 297]: I have been asked to reply.
The overseas earnings of British consulting engineers in 1985 were £562 million net of overseas expenses. This represented 45 per cent. of all net credits earned by United Kingdom consultancy firms and nearly 5 per cent. of all net services credits.