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Ms. Ruddoek
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much crude oil, expressed in (a) volume and (b) cash terms was imported into the United Kingdom from (i) Iran and (ii) Iraq in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total imports from each country each figure represents.
Mr. Alan Clark
The information is given in the following table.
| Imports from Iran and Iraq: 1983–87 | ||||
| Crude Oil | ||||
| Volume thousand metric tonnes | Value in £million | Total Imports Value in £million | Crude Oil as percentage of total | |
| Iran | ||||
| 1983 | 510·3 | 67·7 | 102·2 | 66·2 |
| 1984 | 2,777·2 | 427·5 | 476·3 | 89·8 |
| 1985 | 618·7 | 97·3 | 147·0 | 66·2 |
| 1986 | 627·2 | 52·8 | 93·9 | 56·2 |
| 1987 | 2,175·2 | 176·2 | 236·6 | 74·5 |
| Iraq | ||||
| 1983 | 618·4 | 92·2 | 95·7 | 96·3 |
| 1984 | 413·4 | 67·0 | 76·9 | 87·1 |
| 1985 | 1,893·9 | 275·2 | 293·2 | 93·9 |
| 1986 | 3,083·7 | 219·0 | 249·5 | 87·8 |
| 1987 | 3,900·9 | 309·5 | 324·3 | 95·4 |
| The number of jobs (created or safeguarded) associated with inward investment projects announced by US companies | ||||||
| England | Wales | Scotland | ||||
| Created | Safeguarded | Created | Safeguarded | Created | Safeguarded | |
| 1979 | 3802 | n/a | 382 | n/a | 1953 | n/a |
| 1980 | 3087 | n/a | 502 | n/a | 3208 | n/a |
| 1981 | 3337 | n/a | 776 | n/a | 5096 | n/a |
| 1982 | 3698 | n/a | 731 | n/a | 1956 | n/a |
| 1983 | 5653 | 5346 | 1056 | 2569 | 3652 | 2031 |
| 1984 | 3340 | 2264 | 2086 | 1636 | 7418 | 1367 |
| 1985 | 11572 | 5470 | 820 | 895 | 3778 | 2307 |
| 1986 | 5784 | 4055 | 1291 | 2090 | 1259 | 220 |
| 19871 | 4283 | 2479 | 883 | 757 | 1519 | 261 |
| 1 Provisional. | ||||||
| n/a = not available. | ||||||
Source Overseas Trade Statistics
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