To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing in value terms for each year from 1970 to 1989 his estimate of gross and net output for manufacturing; and if he will add figures to show gross output after the elimination of transfers within the manufacturing sector.
The information on gross and net output for manufacturing industry is published annually at current prices in Business Monitor PA1002, report on the census of production, summary volume. Copies of this volume up to 1987, the latest available year, are available from the House of Commons Library.
Transfers of goods produced by a business to departments not covered by the census (including other businesses in the same enterprise group) are treated within output as sales, valued as if sold to an independent buyer.