asked the Taoiseach the percentage of income spent on: (a) home produced goods and (b) imported goods.
Written Answers. - Expenditure on Imported Goods.
32.
Relevant available information comes from the national accounts estimates and the external trade statistics. Estimates for 1984 are as follows:
|
£ billion |
Per Cent |
|
|
(1) Total personal income after direct taxes |
11.5 |
100 |
|
(2) Personal consumption expenditure on all goods whether home produced or imported at market prices |
6.7 |
58 |
|
(3) Value of imported consumption goods ready for use at import prices included implicitly in (2) |
2.1 |
18 |
The figure at (2) for personal consumption expenditure on goods includes indirect taxes and distributive mark-ups while imports are valued c.i.f. at point of entry. The figure at (3) does not include the import content of home produced goods.