§ Mr. Knoxasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing the rate of change in output per person employed in manufacturing industries in all member States of the EEC, the United States of America and Japan for each year since 1970; and if he will publish the index numbers used to calculate the rate of change percentages.
§ Mr. Denzil DaviesSuch compatible information as is available for the countries and periods specified in the Question is shown below:
Vol. 951, c. 637–8], gave the following answer:
If investment income is counted as the top slice of total income and if married couples are counted as one, it is estimated that about 50,000 taxpayers would have been paying tax at the rate of 75 per cent. or more on some part of their earned income during 1977–78.