§ Mr. CatonTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the gross domestic products of(a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) Wales as a percentage of the United Kingdom gross domestic product in each year from 1979 to 1995. [9984]
§ Mrs. Liddell[holding answer 22 July 1997]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Martin Caton, dated 24 July 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply to your recent question on estimates of Gross Domestic Product for the territories of the United Kingdom for each year from 1979 to 1995.Estimates of GDP for Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Standard Statistical Regions of England for the years 1985 to 1995 were published in the article "Regional Accounts 1995 part 1" starting on page 15 of the January/February 1997 edition of Economic Trends, which is available in the House of Commons Library. Data for the whole period 1979 to 1995 are available on the Regional Accounts Database, which can be accessed by the Library.