§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby of 27 April,Official Report, columns 615–16, concerning trade in finished manufactures with the United States of America, whether he will provide the correlation co-efficient between the change in the United States of America share of United Kingdom exports lagged by one year after the change in relative export unit values in United States dollars.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe correlation coefficient is negative with a value of 0.2.
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§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby of 27 April,Official Report, columns 614–5, concerning gross output of finished manufactures and imports of semi-manufactures, intermediate products and basic materials, whether he will provide comparable figures for finished textiles, including man-made fibres with other fibres as basic materials; and if he will add figures for 1973 and for exports.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkThe available figures are given in the tables. Trade figures at 1985 prices are not available at the required level of detail. Current price data are shown instead.
Exports and imports: textiles OTS basis, current prices 1Semi-manufactures 2Intermediate finished manufactures 3Basic materials exports imports exports imports exports imports £ million £ million £ million £ million £ million £ million 1970 335.9 217.5 — — 96.5 183.7 1973 485.4 431.5 — — 172.1 322.2 1979 1,093.0 1,413.4 — — 315.7 475.5 1988 1,615.2 2,965.5 — — 439.5 688.4 1 Semi-manufactured textiles are defined as division 65 of SITC less made-up articles (658) and floor coverings (659) 2 Intermediate finished manufactures are not appropriate to textiles. 3 Basic materials for textiles are defined as division 26 of SITC (textile fibres)