asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will publish for the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, France and Italy, for each quarter since the first quarter of 1973, indices of (a) the consumer prices index (b) domestic wholesale prices of manufactured goods (c) export prices or unit values in domestic currency terms for manufactures and (d) export prices or unit values in dollar terms for manufactures, and for the same period, a $ index of the prices of world exports of manufactures.

The information is as follows. The series for wholesale prices of manufactures shown at Table (b) are those that correspond most closely to this definition. A dollar index approximating to the prices of world exports of manufactures is shown a Table (d). Developed Market Economies, to which this index refers, is composed of South Africa. Canada, the United States of America, Israel, Japan, Western Europe—including Yugoslavia but excluding Turkey—Australia and New Zealand. In 1970, the manufactured goods exports of these countries accounted for 83·6 per cent, of the world total.

asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will publish for each quarter since the first quarter of 1973 (a) indices of the £ sterling and dollar prices or unit values of United Kingdom exports for each of SITC 5, 6, 7 and 8, and (b) an index of world export values for the same commodity groups in $ terms.