asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will make a statement on the progress of the voluntary agreement he reached with the Japanese authorities on the voluntary reduction of car exports to the United Kingdom.

Our concern about the level of car imports has been made clear, both during my right hon. Friend's discussions with Japanese Ministers last September and on subsequent occasions. There was a significant decline in registrations of Japanese cars in the concluding months of last year. The Japanese industry has predicted that average monthly registrations of Japanese cars during the first quarter of this year will not exceed the average of the last five months of 1975.