asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will publish in the Official Report figures showing the value

					Imports		Exports
					Thousand metric tons	£ million	Thousand metric tons	£million
1973	…	…	…	…	361	56·6	498	65·6
1974	…	…	…	…	468	103·8	370	83·7
1975	…	…	…	…	273	84·0	281	94·4

The 1973 figures exclude a very small amount of glass insulators which were not separately distinguished in the overseas trade statistics for that year.