asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish information available to him on insurance and pension fund investment for all years since 1978–79 inclusive, by standard United Kingdom region in absolute, indexed, and per capita forms.

Information on investment by insurance companies and pension funds is not collected on a regional basis. Statistics on investment by insurance companies operating in the United Kingdom, for the calendar years 1980 to 1985, were published in British Business on 28 November 1986. Corresponding data for investment by self-administered pension funds managed from within the United Kingdom were published in British Business on 12 September 1986. Information on the holdings of assets at the end of 1978 and 1979 and net investment during 1979 for United Kingdom insurance companies and self-administered pension funds was published in British Business on 7 September 1984.