§ Ms QuinTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what are the figures for imports and exports and for invisible and visible trade between the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China for each of the past 10 years. [25205]
§ Mr. OppenheimInformation on the UK's visible trade with the People's Republic of China between 1985 and 1994 is published by the Office for National Statistics in tables 12.5 and 12.6 of the "Annual Abstract of Statistics", 1996 edition. The same information for 1995 is published by the Office for National Statistics in table 2 of the most recent "Business Monitor", MM20. Copies of both the above publications are available in the Library of the House. Information on invisible trade between the UK and the People's Republic of China for 1994 will be published by the Office for National Statistics in the April 1996 issue of "Economic Trends". Information for previous years is not available.