Manufacturing Trade Balance

HC Deb 13 July 1988 vol 137 c276W

101. Dr. Reid

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what has been the change in the manufacturing trade balance since 1979.

Mr. Alan Clark

Trade in manufactures on a balance of payments basis was in surplus by £2.8 billion in 1979 and in deficit by £6.5 billion in 1987.