§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report his estimate of the percentage increase in unit labour costs for (a) manufacturing, (b) the production and extractive industries and (c) the rest of the economy in the latest 12 months for which figures are available, for each year since 1970, and for the decades ending in 1966 and 1973.
§ Mr. MajorFigures are available for manufacturing industries and for the production industries (which includes the extractive industries) only from 1971 to 1985. The 1986 figures will be published in due course in the Department of EmploymentGazette. No figures are compiled for the rest of the economy.
Unit labour costs percentage increase on previous year Manufacturing industries Production industries 1971 8.2 7.5 1972 9.5 10.5 1973 5.9 5.4 1974 17.4 19.5 1975 37.2 36.6 1976 10.8 9.2 1977 10.8 7.7 1978 15.1 12.9 1979 17.9 13.7 1980 22.2 21.5 1981 9.0 7.2 1982 4.8 3.3 1983 0.2 -0.9 1984 3.1 2.0 1985 4.2 4.6