HC Deb 20 July 1988 vol 137 cc608-9W
1976. Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give the International Monetary Fund trade-weighted relative export unit values for United Kingdom prices as of percentage of German prices compared with the same percentage figure in the Department of Trade and Industry figures for the last four available quarters and for (a)1985, (b) 1981 and (c)

Mr. Alan Clark

The export-weighted relative export unit value indices published in the Department's "Monthly

Relative Export Unit Value Indices for Manufacturing1
1980 = 100
Export Weighted Total Trade Weighted
United Kingdom F R Germany Ratio of UK to F R Germany United Kingdom F R Germany Ratio of UK to F R Germany
per cent. per cent.
1976 74.8 103.2 72.4 75.0 103.4 72.5
1981 98.2 90.0 109.1 98.8 90.7 108.9
1985 89.2 86.0 103.7 90.3 87.3 103.4
1987 Q1 86.0 100.7 85.4 86.8 101.3 85.7
1987 Q2 90.4 98.7 91.6 91.3 99.3 91.9
1987 Q3 90.3 97.9 92.2 91.2 98.8 92.3
1987 Q4 92.9 98.7 94.1 93.8 99.4 94.4
1 Each country compared with a weighted average of sixteen other OECD countries.

Source: International Monetary Fund