Invisible Earnings Mr. Marten asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a breakdown of the net private sector invisible earnings by trading the areas, used in the Department of Trade monthly balance of payments statements Table 4, for the years 1971 to 1976. Mr. Robert Sheldon I regret that, for practical and conceptual reasons, information on invisible earnings is not available in the detail requested. Estimates of earnings in the years 1973 to 1975 from the other countries of the European Communities as a whole have however been prepared for the categories of invisibles usually identified in the balance of payments accounts. The estimates are pub---------- |1946–47| --------- |1947–48| --------- |1948–49| --------- |1949–50| --------- |1950–51| --------- |1951–52| --------- |1952–53| --------- |1953–54| --------- |1954–55| --------- |1955–56| --------- |1956–57| --------- |1957–58| --------- |1958–59| --------- |1959–60| --------- |1960–61| --------- |1961–62| --------- |1962–63| --------- |1963–64| --------- |1964–65| --------- |1965–66| --------- |1966–67| --------- |1967–68| --------- |1968–69| --------- |1969–70| --------- |1970–71| --------- |1971–72| --------- |1972–73| --------- |1973–74| --------- |1974–75| --------- |1975–76| --------- |1976–77| --------- Family allowance deduction—"clawback"—has been take into account where appropriate.Where the weekly amount of family allowance payable was increased during lished, together with a description of the principles of estimation involved, in Annex 6 of "United Kingdom Balance of Payments 1965–75."