HC Deb 27 January 1983 vol 35 cc518-9W
43. Mr. Maxton

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a revised estimate of the growth in productivity in each of the three years up to and including the first half of 1982 in the whole economy, in view of the revised estimates for employment.

Sir Geoffrey Howe

Output per head indices incorporating revisions to employment, and from which the growth estimates requested can be derived, will be published in the February 1983 issue ofEmployment Gazette.

Although the labour force survey results for 1981, released early in December 1982, suggested some upward revisions to estimates of the employed labour force, a definitive time series is not yet available. Revised figures for employees in employment, from September 1978 onwards, were published on 30 December 1982 but estimates of the total employed labour force are liable to further revision in February 1983, when new estimates of the self-employed become available.