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Mr. George Rodgers
asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will provide figures showing the increase in output of the textile industry during each of the last 10 years for which the information is available.
Mr. Carmichael
The output of the textile industry (Order XIII of the Standard industrial Classifiation) as measured by the index of industrial production (1970=100) was as follows:
| 1965 | 86·1 |
| 1966 | 85·9 |
| 1967 | 84·1 |
| 1968 | 97·1 |
| 1969 | 100·2 |
| 1970 | 100·0 |
| 1971 | 100·7 |
| 1972 | 103·1 |
| 1973 | 108·6 |
| 1974 | 99·2 |
| 1975 (provisional) | 93·9 |