§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the total savings and contractual savings as a percentage of gross domestic product for each year since 1973.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThe available figures are as follows:
Saving as a percentage of GDP* Personal sector All sectors† Total† Committed‡ 1973 24.8 7.9 6.7 1974 24.0 8.7 6.9 1975 21.0 8.8 7.2 1976 21.8 8.0 7.2 1977 22.4 7.0 7.6 1978 22.0 8.2 7.9 1979 23.8 9.0 7.9 1980 21.3 10.5 7.8 1981 19.8 8.7 7.4 1982 18.3 7.4 7.3 * Expenditure based, market prices. † Derived from National Income and Expenditure, 1983 edition. ‡ Derived from Financial Statistics, October 1983, supplementary table S23.