asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish the present output levels of steel in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States of America, and any information available from Community or international sources as to the planned outputs of these countries by 1975, and the percentage increases these represent in each case.
The figures below show steel output in the latest available 12-month period. The only recent official forecast, published in the " Forward Programme for Steel " by the European Commission, is that the output for the Community as a whole in 1974 will be 156·2 million metric tons.
| Crude Steel Production—million metric tons: | |
| December 1972—November 1973 | |
| Community of Nine of which | 149·0* |
| United Kingdom | 26·9 |
| France | 25·1 |
| Germany | 49·0 |
| Italy | 20·5 |
| Japan | 118·6 |
| United States of America | 135·7 |
| * Part estimated. | |
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what is the latest available 12-monthly production figure for steel in the Common Market ; and what is the figure for the same period in the United Kingdom.
As follows:
| Crude steel production, December 1972—November 1973: million metric tons: | |
| European Economic Community of which | 149·0* |
| United Kingdom | 26·9 |
| * Part estimated. | |