HC Deb 22 November 1985 vol 87 cc314-5W
Mr. Gordon Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list, for each regional area and for major industry groups, the capital expenditure in manufacturing for 1979 and for the most recent year for which figures are available (a) at 1979 prices and (b) at current prices.

Mr. Butcher

Constant price figures are not available. The latest available figures, at current prices and relating to capital expenditure in the standard regions of the United Kingdom, are given in the following table. Comparable information for the industry groups shown in this table is not readily available for 1979 and would be costly to compile.

Standard regions of England Wales Scotland Northern Ireland United Kingdom
Industry Year North Yorkshire and Humberside East Midlands East Anglia South East South West West Midlands North West
Manufacture of other transport 1980 6.9 19.8 24.8 2.1 95.0 55.3 9.2 37.7 4.3 25.1 2.5 282.5
equipment 1982 15.5 10.0 26.0 2.0 56.6 51.9 13.8 31.5 2.3 23.7 2.0 235.3
Instrument engineering 1980 2.2 2.9 2.5 2.0 29.1 5.0 2.6 2.8 1.8 6.2 1.9 59.1
1982 -0.5 2.9 3.4 1.8 25.2 7.3 1.9 4.1 4.2 7.3 1.1 58.6
Food, drink and tobacco 1980 55.5 99.8 73.6 73.6 198.5 63.0 75.4 115.3 26.8 134.1 42.4 957.9
manufacturing industries 1982 40.5 89.3 106.5 80.5 202.7 92.3 97.4 117.2 41.0 99.2 48.5 1,015.1
Textile industry 1980 -1.6 30.4 35.5 1.2 5.5 3.5 5.7 31.0 1.7 15.4 13.4 141.6
1982 1.7 31.0 35.8 0.5 4.9 1.6 4.5 20.6 7.9 13.4 6.4 128.3
Manufacture of leather and 1980 0.2 1.5 1.9 — 1.8 0.3 0.5 1.4 0.2 0.9 0.3 9.0
leather goods 1982 † 1.0 † 0.3 † † † † † † 0.2 6.1
Footwear and clothing industries 1980 6.0 9.9 10.4 1.4 16.9 2.0 4.0 14.2 4.5 9.2 4.5 83.2
1982 7.7 10.0 15.5 0.7 16.5 3.4 3.2 14.4 3.5 7.0 4.2 86.0
Timber and wooden furniture 1980 9.5 20.0 9.6 4.4 44.1 11.3 9.2 19.3 7.5 23.7 4.2 162.7
industries 1982 7.6 16.0 8.6 6.2 31.6 7.3 7.7 11.2 5.2 9.4 3.6 114.3
Manufacture of paper and paper 1980 63.4 36.6 31.1 16.7 197.9 30.3 28.6 62.7 25.7 56.7 6.1 555.7
products: Printing and publishing 1982 28.3 28.3 26.1 18.3 159.0 26.2 20.6 56.7 25.9 28.0 6.3 423.7
Processing of rubber and plastics 1980 18.2 13.7 20.6 11.8 52.7 23.6 42.3 39.7 10.7 18.4 9.9 261.6
1982 14.4 14.5 20.9 9.8 46.2 16.4 31.0 23.8 7.7 13.1 6.4 204.1
Other manufacturing industries 1980 1.0 0.4 2.1 2.5 18.8 1.6 7.0 3.4 2.2 2.2 — 41.2
1982 7.8 1.8 2.7 1.7 20.4 2.0 5.1 2.8 2.7 1.9 0.1 49.1

Source: Annual Census of Production Business Monitor PA1002.

* Divisions 2–4, Standard Industrial Classification Revised 1980.

† Figures cannot be shown owing to the risk of disclosing information about individual enterprises.

—Nil or less than half the final digit shown.