Incomes and Production

HC Deb 10 March 1975 vol 888 c76W

Mr. Atkinson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the United Kingdom estimated disposable income per capita at 1970 prices for the years 1950, 1960, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974; and if he will relate by listing alongside, these statistics to volume output in the production industries over the same period.

Mr. Robert Sheldon:

The following are figures of changes in personal disposable income at constant prices and of changes in industrial production:

ESTIMATES PER HEAD OF POPULATION
	Personal disposable income at 1970 prices	Industrial production
	£	Index, 1970 = 100
1950	387	62.4	62.7
1960	515	82.9	80.1
1970	621	100.0	100.0
1971	636	102.4	100.1
1972	677	108.9	101.7
1973	713	114.9	108.9
1974	714*	115.0*	105.6(105.7*)
* Average of first three quarters, seasonally adjusted, at an equivalent annual rate.