Below is the text of Mr Major’s written Parliamentary Answer on Manufacturing Output on 11th February 1988.
Mr. Curry To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the underlying rate of growth of manufacturing output.
Mr. Brandon-Bravo To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the underlying rate of growth of manufacturing output.
Mr. Gerald Howarth To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the underlying rate of growth of manufacturing output.
Mr. Major In the three months ending last November output was 6 per cent. higher than a year earlier.