§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North on 22 December, Official Report, c. 375, if he will publish (a) gross domestic product for the years 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983, (b) overall taxation, excluding local authority rates, for each of these years and (c) taxation figures, including local authority rates, for each of these years.
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§ Mr. MooreThe figures are shown below. Figures for taxation include national insurance contributions. Because of the change to housing benefit from November 1982, local authority rates figures for 1983 are on a slightly different basis from those for earlier years. All figures for 1983 are provisional estimates.
£ thousand million (a) Gross domestic product at market prices
(b) Overall taxation excluding LA rates
(c) Overall taxation including LA rates
1979 195.8 61.8 68.3 1980 228.4 75.7 83.9 1981 250.5 86.5 96.9 1982 273.7 96.7 108.8 1983 296.7 103.4 115.6