§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Prime Minister if he will publish a table showing, for each of the years 1965 to 1991, the Department of Trade and Industry and the International Monetary Fund indices of trade-weighted relative export unit values base on the second half of 1973 = 100, estimated where necessary on the basis of movements in the rate of exchange since the quarter in which the figures for other countries were last made available.
§ The Prime MinisterThe Department of Trade and Industry does not produce a relative export unit value series. The information from the International Monetary Fund series is in the table. Data for 1991 are not available.
United Kingdom relative1 export unit value index—UVI— for manufactured goods Value 1979 119.9 1980 134.0 1981 131.5 1982 123.7 1983 120.4 1984 117.6 1985 119.7 1986 116.9 1987 121.5 1988 131.8 1989 124.6 1990 129.1 1 United Kingdom's UVI of manufactured goods compared with an export.weighted average of 16 major competitors, in common currency.