§ Mr. Sheermanasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) if he will give the volume of imported wool textile products into the United Kingdom for each of the last 20 years expressed as a percentage of the total trade in such products;
(2) what percentage of United Kingdom exports was contributed by the wool textile industry in each of the last 10 years;
(3) what, in constant value prices, has been the level of (a) wool textile production of the United Kingdom and (b) imports of wool textile products in each of the last 20 years.
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§ Mr. Alam clark[pursuant to his reply, 16 March 1987, c. 364]Information requested on united kingdom wool textile production beyond 1973 and imports of wool textile products beyond 1970 are not available.
Year United Kingdom imports of wool textile products(£ million)1 2 United Kingdom wool textile production (Index of production)3 Quantity of imports of wool textile products as percentage of total imports of such products4 Percentage of United Kingdom exports of contribution by wool textile industry 1970 81.4 n/a n/a — 1971 56.7 n/a n/a — 1972 84.0 n/a n/a — 1973 136.1 171.3 n/a — 1974 112.6 139.6 n/a — 1975 106.5 123.2 n/a — 1976 164.1 123.9 n/a — 1977 217.5 128.4 n/a 1.2 1978 158.8 124.3 6.1 1.1 1979 169.7 115.6 5.5 1.0 1980 157.6 100.0 5.4 0.8 1981 170.2 90.4 5.9 0.8 1982 181.4 86.0 5.6 0.7 1983 225.2 87.0 5.8 0.7 1984 273.1 89.4 2.5 0.7 1985 285.0 93.1 5.1 0.7 19865 288.4 99.0 65.2 70.7 source: OTS Business Monitor MQ10 Notes: 1 Wool textile products are defined as Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) R2 sub-groups 268.7, 651.2, 654.2,654.3, 655.21, 658.31, 659.21, 659.4 and United Kingdom Tariff headings 5902.4100 and 9100, 5917.5100 and 5900 and 6005.9600. 2 SITC R2 introduced in 1978: coverage in earlier years may not correspond directly. 3 Production figures at constant value prices are available only in index form and only to 1973. 4 Quantity of imports of wool textile products as percentage of total imports of such products calculated as totle of products define in Note I as a percentage of total trade in SITC division 65 plus sub-group 268.7. 5 1986 figures provisional 6 Based on latest available figures: January-October 1986. 7 Based on latest available figures: January-September 1986.