HC Deb 31 July 1981 vol 9 cc683-4W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) further to his reply to the hon. Member for Grimsby on 18 December 1980, Official Report, c. 395–6, concerning output per head in the United Kingdom and Japan, whether he will publish a table in the Official Report showing the corresponding figures for investment; and if he will make a statement concerning the correlation between (a) output and output per head and (b) investment per head and output per head;

(2) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1952 the increase in output per head in manufacturing and in the economy as a whole, less manufacturing and oil and gas, together with the rate of unemployment and the increase in retail prices;

(3) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the increase in (a) the volume of output per person employed and (b) wages and salaries per unit of output in (i) manufacturing and (ii) the economy as a whole, less manufacturing, oil and gas for each year between 1952 and 1980;

(4) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for the two years ended May 1981 and December 1973 the increase in output per head in the different sections of manufacturing industry and the corresponding figures for output per operative and for other workers;

(5) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for the periods of two years ended May 1981 and

Mr. Brittan

The table below contains estimates of capital investment per head of population made from the data available in "National Accounts of OECD Countries". They are expressed in both current and constant prices. In national accounts, investment is classified on the basis of the ownership of assets. The estimates therefore exclude expenditure by financial organisations in assets for leasing to and use by the manufacturing industries. The coverage of "manufacturing" may vary slightly from country to country. For Japan and France, no estimates of manufacturing investment are available.

December 1973, respectively, the increase in output per head in manufacturing and the corresponding figures for operatives and for other workers in the industry; and if he will make a statement on the reasons for differences in the statistics.

Mr. Lawson

I regret that in the time available it has not been possible to provide the information requested. I shall write to the hon. Member.