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Mr. Wall
asked the Secretary of State for Trade what percentage of Great Britain's requirement of large diameter steel pipes is imported from Japan.
Mr. Meacher
The information is not available. Trade statistics only identify separately imports of tube and pipe up to 152 mm in internal diameter and tube and pipe exceeding 152 mm. Statistics of United Kingdom deliveries of tubes and pipes from home production collected and published by the Iron and Steel Statistics Bureau are not analysed by diameter. It is only possible to calculate import penetration for pipes and tubes as a whole.