§ Mr. Stephen O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the productivity of UK companies has been, broken down by sector, in each quarter since 1997. [148176]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Stephen O'Brien, dated 9 February 2004:
1224WAs National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on the productivity of UK companies in each quarter since 1997. (148176)The attached table shows the level of productivity, as measured by output per job, for the whole economy and for the energy, manufacturing and services sectors. The services sector figures are published as experimental statistics on the National Statistics website. All series shown are output per job indices which are referenced to 100 for the annual average of the year 2000. The data shown are from the first quarter of 1997 to the first quarter of 2003 inclusive.
Indices1 of output per job for the whole UK economy and for three sectors, quarterly since 1997 Sector Period Whole economy Mining, Electricity, Gas and water supply Manufacturing Services 1997 Q1 94.3 88.4 89.9 94.6 1997 Q2 94.0 88.2 89.2 94.3 1997Q3 94.6 88.3 90.0 95.1 1997 Q4 95.4 86.5 90.2 96.4 1998 Q1 95.7 86.7 90.5 96.7 1998 Q2 96.0 87.9 90.6 97.1 1998 Q3 96.9 89.9 90.9 98.3 1998 Q4 97.5 91.9 90.9 99.0 1999 Q1 97.4 93.5 92.1 98.5 1999 Q2 97.3 96.3 93.5 98.1 1999 Q3 97.6 100.0 95.3 97.8 1999 Q4 98.3 101.9 96.3 98.6 2000 Q1 99.4 103.7 97.8 99.4 2000 Q2 99.8 102.8 99.3 99.8 2000 Q3 100.3 98.7 100.5 100.5 2000 Q4 100.4 94.9 102.4 100.3 2001 Q1 101.1 95.2 103.5 100.6 2001 Q2 100.8 96.7 102.6 100.6 2001 Q3 101.0 96.2 104.0 100.7 2001 Q4 101.4 96.5 102.9 101.5 2002 Q1 101.6 97.4 103.8 101.2 2002 Q2 102.0 101.2 103.5 101.5 2002 Q3 102.8 96.5 106.0 102.4 2002 Q4 103.4 97.8 106.1 103.0 2003 Q1 103.4 96.2 107.2 103.3 2003 Q2 103.7 95.0 109.7 103.3 2003 Q3 104.3 96.6 111.1 104.2 1 All indices referenced to 100 for the annual average of the year 2000.
§ Mr. Stephen O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the productivity of UK companies with a turnover of(a) less than £1 million, (b) £1 to £20 million, (c) £20 to £50 million, (d) £50 to £100 million and (e) more than £100 million has been in each quarter since 1997. [148177]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Stephen O'Brien, dated 9 February 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on the productivity of UK companies. (148177)The Office for National Statistics (ONS) does not currently produce estimates of the productivity of UK companies by turnover size bands. Official productivity estimates are based on National Accounts output data. While it would be possible to use other data to produce measures of activity by turnover size band, such estimates would be in current prices only and would be distinct from official productivity measures. Such current price measures would not be able to be related to the official productivity measures, and could only be produced at disproportionate cost.