§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish a table showing for each year since 1970 the relative profitability of exports of engineering products on a similar basis to column 6 of the table F3 of the "Money Review of External Trade Statistics."
§ Mr. MaplesNo. The measure of profitability to which the hon. Member refers requires compatible indices of export unit values and producers' output prices, which are available for manufacturing as a whole but not for its components.