HC Deb 26 January 1988 vol 126 cc142-3W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what was the total output of steel, the percentage exported and the share of the domestic market taken by imports in 1958, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975 and each year from 1979 to 1987.

Mr. Butcher

The figures are as follows:

Year UK Crude Steel Production '000 tonnes Per cent, of Production Exported1 Imports as per cent, of Total Deliveries to Home Market2
19583 19,880 16.0 3.5
1960 24,695 16.0 7.7
1965 27,421 17.7 3.0
19703 28,291 18.5 5.5
19753 20,098 20.6 20.6
1979 21,464 27.0 20.6
1980 11,277 29.4 32.6
19813 15,573 31.0 23.0
1982 13,704 31.2 26.6
1983 14,986 33.2 24.7
1984 15,121 33.3 24.3
1985 15,722 37.8 26.2
1986 14,726 44.6 30.2
198734 17,420 na na
1 Calculated on a "crude steel equivalent" basis.
2 Imports exclude conversion materials, except in the years 1958 and 1960 for which only total imports are available. Total deliveries

are net deliveries by UK producers to home market plus imports.
353-week period.
4 Provisional.

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