§ Mr. Lawsonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide a table showing (a) the increase in productivity in the United Kingdom, (b) the increase in productivity in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development area as a whole and (c) the increase in productivity in the United Kingdom expressed as a percentage of the increase in productivity in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development area as a whole, between 1973 and 1976, and for each of the seven previous three-year periods: 1970 to 1973, 1967 to 1970, 1964 to 1967, 1961 to 1964, 1958 to 1961, 1955 to 1958, and 1952 to 1955.
§ Mr. Denzil Davies,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 6th March, 1978; Vol. 945, c. 532], gave the following answer:
The only information which is readily available, on a comparable basis in current OECD publications, relates to years from 1961 onwards and is given in the table below. As OECD has not yet published complete figures for 1976 the hon. Member might find the figures for the three-year period 1972–1975 of use.
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OUTPUT PER HEAD (1) United Kingdom (on OECD basis) Percentage increase 1961–1964 + 8.8 1964–1967 + 6.7 1967–1970 + 8.3 1970–1973 + 10.4 1972–1975 + 2.4 OECD (as a whole) 1961–1964 + 13.6 1964–1967 + 11.4 1967–1970 + 10.4 1970–1973 + 12.3 1972–1975 + 3.0 Increase in the United Kingdom expressed as a percentage of increase in OECD.
1961–1964 64.8 per cent. 1964–1967 58.2 per cent. 1967–1970 79.9 per cent. 1970–1973 85.0 per cent. 1972–1975 79.7 per cent. SourcesGDP—National Accounts of OECD countries 1975, Volume 1, Main Aggregates Employment—Labour Force Statistics 1963–74 and 1964–1975.
(1) Gross domestic product (GDP) in purchasers' values at 1970 prices and 1970 exchange rates per head of total employment.