HC Deb 27 February 1998 vol 307 cc387-8W
Ms Walley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give per capita gross domestic product figures for Staffordshire as a proportion of the EU average in (a) 1993, (b) 1994 and (c) 1995; and if he will make a statement. [31322]

Mrs. Roche

I have been asked to reply.

The latest figures published by Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European Community) are for 1994, and were published in April 1997. These show that the GDP per head for Staffordshire in 1993 and 1994 was 78 and 77 per cent. respectively of the European Union average. Figures for 1995, together with revisions for earlier years, are expected to be published by Eurostat in March 1998.