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Mr. Austin Mitchell
asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the volume and value of mechanical engineering products produced and exported
| TABLE 1 | ||||||||
| VOLUME INDICES OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION(a) | ||||||||
| 1975=100 | ||||||||
| United Kingdom | Federal Republic of Germany(b) | France | Italy | United States | Japan | |||
| 1955 | … | … | N.A. | 51 | N.A. | 41 | 42 | 7 |
| 1960 | … | … | 67 | 69 | N.A. | 57 | 47 | 7 |
| 1967 | … | … | 88 | 80 | 65 | 83 | 85 | 55 |
| 1972 | … | … | 92 | 102 | 89 | 90 | 89 | 99 |
| 1978 | … | … | 96 | 106 | N.A. | N.A. | 123 | 126 |
| 1979— | ||||||||
| First quarter | … | 99 | 98 | N.A. | N.A. | 129 | 136 | |
| Second quarter | … | 97 | 115 | N.A. | N.A. | 131 | N.A. | |
| TABLE 2 | ||||||||
| VALUE OF GROSS OUTPUT AT CURRENT PRICES(a) | ||||||||
| United Kingdom | Federal Republic of Germany(c) | France(d) | Italy(e) | United States | Japan | |||
| £ million | thousand million marks | thousand million francs | thousand million lire | thousand million dollars | thousand million yen | |||
| 1963 | … | … | 2,297 | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 34·2 | 1,903 |
| 1967 | … | … | 3,503(f) | 40·1(g) | 55·4(f)(g) | 1,739 | 53·0 | 3,580 |
| 1972 | … | … | 4,755 | 68·4 | 50·2 | 3,155 | 69·9 | 7,782 |
| 1975 | … | … | 10,170 | 84·3 | 75·5 | 6,904 | 99·4 | 11,658 |
| Notes for above tables: | ||||||||
| (a) Coverage is that of Group 382 of the International Standard Industrial Classification which relates to non-electrical machinery excluding instrument engineering goods, unless otherwise stated. | ||||||||
| (b) Data excludes office, computing and accounting machinery. | ||||||||
| (c) Data covers local units employing 10 or more. Sales of merchanted goods are excluded. | ||||||||
| (d) Data includes instrument engineering goods. | ||||||||
| (e) Data covers enterprises employing 20 or more. | ||||||||
| (f) Data relates to 1968. | ||||||||
| (g) Including turnover taxes. | ||||||||
| TABLE 3 | ||||||||
| VALUE OF EXPORTS(a) | ||||||||
| Million US dollars | ||||||||
| United Kingdom | Federal Republic of Germany | France | Italy | United States | Japan | |||
| 1960 | … | … | 1,993 | 2,255 | 563 | 516 | 3,324 | 222 |
| 1967 | … | … | 2,856 | 4,952 | 1,407 | 1,516 | 5,951 | 928 |
| 1972 | … | … | 5,135 | 10,552 | 3,138 | 3,156 | 9,545 | 3,084 |
| 1977 | … | … | 10,615 | 25,339 | 8,698 | 7,383 | 22,231 | 10,096 |
| (a) Coverage is that given by division 71 of the Standard Industrial Trade Classification (Rev. 1) which relates to non-electrical machinery. | ||||||||