asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he estimates that a United Kingdom market of around 1·8 million vehicle sales per year is sufficient to sustain the growth in car imports, principally from Spain and Comecon countries, together with the growth of liquidation in each year since 1979 and in 1985 to the latest available month, in Coventry, the west midlands and nationally.

The information relating to insolvencies that is available is given in the table:Nissan's United Kingdom produced product line and the expanding production of other United Kingdom car manufacturing companies.

We consider that there is plenty of room both for fully competitive existing United Kingdom manufacturers to increase their market share and for a Nissan plant producing British cars with a high level of local content.