asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will publish, from international sources available to him, how much steel is produced and how many motor vehicles are produced, in the latest convenient year, in the United Kingdom, USA, France, West Germany and Japan.

Details for the year 1974 are as follows:

		Production of motor vehicles
	Production of crude steel Million tones	Cars Units	Commercial vehicles Units
United Kingdom	22·4	1,534,119	402,566
United States of America	132·0	7,324,504	2,746,538
France	27·0	3,045,283	417,565
West Germany	53·2	2,839,596	260,181
Japan	117·1	3,931,842	2,619,998

Preliminary figures of overseas steel production were compiled by the International Iron and Steel Institute and published in "World Steel in Figures". Figures of motor vehicle production are published in the "Monthly Statistical Review" issued by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, copies of which are available in the Library.