§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Prime Minister if he will publish a table showing in index form and as a percentage the growth in output between 1963 and 1973, 1973 and 1979 and 1979 to date of each of the mechanical engineering, textiles, clothing, footwear, cars, commercial 503W vehicles, leather, man-made fibres, metals, metal goods not elsewhere specified and shipbuilding industries, together with (i) the change in their weight as a percentage of manufacturing output and the weight of manufacturing in gross domestic product, (ii) figures of import penetration by the EEC and the rest of the world, including an estimate from the year ended June 1989 and (iii) the change in their share of exports of the main manufacturing countries.
§ Mr. HeseltineI have been asked to reply.
Complete information is not available. Output indices for the industries listed below are available from the central shared database (CSDB) operated by the Central Statistical Office, which can be accessed from the Library of the House.
Indices Mechanical engineering (class 32) DVJA Textiles (class 43) DVJI Clothing, leather and footwear (published group 44/45) DVJJ Motor vehicles (published group 35) DVJC Man-made fibres (class 26) DVIX Metals (published group 21/22) DVIT Metal goods NES (class 31) DV1Z Other transport (class 36) DVJD The weights within manufacturing for each of the above groups and manufacturing within gross domestic product in the index base years are as follows:
1963 1975 1980 1985 32 15.5 16.9 19.6 17.9 43 7.2 5.3 4.4 4.5 44/45 4.9 5.3 5.1 5.3 35 7.3 7.3 7.8 8.0 26 1.2 0.8 0.4 0.5 21/22 8.3 6.6 4.7 5.5 31 7.5 7.8 8.3 7.8 36 6.5 5.6 6.9 7.7 Manufacturing 35.3 30.0 26.5 23.8 Information on import penetration from 1970 to 1979 was published in the June 1980 edition of "Economic Trends". Subsequent data up to the year ended June 1989 were published in "Business Monitor MQ12"; annual summaries are published in table 12.2 of the "Annual Abstract of Statistics". These publications are available in the Library of the House. The figures do not separate the EC from the rest of the world.
Export statistics for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries are published in OECD series C—"Foreign Trade by Commodities", which is available in the Library of the House. To extract these on a comparable basis for the sectors required would involve disproportionate cost.