§ 30. Mr. TredinnickTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the timetable for the publication of the Office for National Statistics 1999 figures for manufacturers' sales of hosiery and other knitted goods to the public. [116633]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. David Tredinnick, dated 6 April 2000:
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the publication of 1999 manufacturers' sales figures of Hosiery and other knitted goods.Detailed product data from the 1999 quarterly PRODucts of the European COMmunity (PRODCOM) survey of manufacturers' sales of knitted and crocheted articles will be published in a Business Monitor at the end of May 2000.Provisional results of the 1999 Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) are expected to be published in December 2000. This News Release will contain values for turnover, purchases and gross value added for the textile and textile products industry. More detailed industry results, including those for the manufacture of knitted and crocheted articles, will be published in the summer of 2001.