§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Industry what value of production he estimates that manufactures in the United Kingdom and in the city of Leicester, respectively, lost as a result of the three-day working week.
§ Mr. BennFrom the limited statistical information available, manufacturing output may have been reduced by up to one-fifth in the first quarter, equivalent to a loss of gross domestic product of the order of £1,000 million. For the economy as a whole the loss will have been substantially greater. I have no information from which to judge the loss of manufacturing output in Leicester. The index of average earnings in January, the latest month available, showed a fall of 4½ per cent. compared with December.