§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, in the manner of the reply given to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North Official Report, 13 February 1984, column 65, he will compare in local currencies and in pound sterling equivalent (a) gross domestic product per person, (b) average income tax paid per person, (c) average value added tax paid per person and (d) average per capita annual income in each of the United Kingdom, Germany and France during the years 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984.
§ Mr. Peter Rees:The information available is given in the following table. For corresponding data for 1982 on items (b) and (c) I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to him on 11 February at column 52; no later data are available. Exchange rates do not necessarily provide a satisfactory basis for converting other national currencies into pound sterling in the context of GDP and a more realistic assessment of relative levels of GDP in terms of their domestic purchasing power can be made through the use of purchasing power parities. Estimates on both bases are given in the table.
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Estimates per head of total population Gross domestic product at market prices Personal income* 1981 In local currencies United Kingdom (£) 4,495 3,040 German Federal Republic (DM) 25,035 16,965 France (Fr) 57,660 36,550 In £ sterling (a) Based on exchange rates German Federal Republic 5,495 3,725 France 5,275 3,340 (b) Based on purchasing power parities German Federal Republic 5,510 3,735 France 5,320 3,375 1982 In local currencies United Kingdom (£) 4,905 3,310 German Federal Republic (DM) 25,965 17,345 France (Fr) 65,830 41,175 In £ sterling (a) Based on exchange rates German Federal Republic 6,120 4,090 France 5,730 3,585 (b) Based on purchasing power parities German Federal Republic 5,840 3,905 France 5,790 3,620 1983 In local currencies United Kingdom (£) 5,325 3,515 German Federal Republic (DM) 27,150 n.a. France (Fr) 72,690 n.a. In £ sterling (a) Based on exchange rates German Federal Republic 7,015 n.a France 6,295 n.a. (b) Based on purchasing power parities German Federal Republic 6,220 n.a. France 6,120 n.a. 1984 In local currencies United Kingdom (£) 5,635 n.a. German Federal Republic (DM) 28,275 n.a. France (Fr) 79,220 n.a. In £ sterling‡ (a) Based on exchange rates German Federal Republic 7,460 n.a. France 6,810 n.a.
Taxes on personal income† Value added tax† 1981 In local currencies United Kingdom (£) 475 205 German Federal Republic (DM) 2,715 1,585 France (Fr) 3,260 5,130 In £ sterling (a) Based on exchange rates German Federal Republic 595 350 France 300 470 (b) Based on purchasing power parities German Federal Republic 595 350 France 300 475 Notes:
n.a. = not available.
* Personal income comprises wages and salaries, income from self-employment and income from investments. For the German Federal Republic the figures exclude re-invested earnings of the self-employed.
† On a receipts basis. The United Kingdom figures are affected by the Civil Service dispute in 1981.
‡ Figures based on purchasing power parities are not yet available.
Sources:
United Kingdom—latest estimates supplied to OECD.
France and German Federal Republic—GDP and Personal income from OECD National Accounts publications. Tax data from Revenue Statistics of OECD Member countries 1965–83.
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§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information he has as to (a) the comparative gross domestic product and (b) the percentage of gross domestic product accounted for by income taxes and value-added tax, respectively, for each member state of the European Economic Community, for each year since 1981 inclusive; and if he will also provide for each country the total of individual salaries or incomes as a percentage of that country's gross domestic product.
§ Mr. Peter ReesComparisons of gross domestic product per head between EC member states for the years 1981–83 are given in "OECD National Accounts 1960–1983" (volume 1, page 125). A copy of the publication is available in the House of Commons Library. For information on the percentage of gross domestic product accounted for by income taxes and value added tax in the period 1981–1983, and provisional estimates of comparative gross domestic product in 1984, I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to him on 11 February at column54.
The following table gives percentages of gross domestic product accounted for by personal income in 1981 and 1982 for Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Corresponding figures for later years (apart from the United Kingdom) and for the other EC member states are not available. These figures should be used with caution since they are not comparable partly for the reasons indicated by the footnotes to the table and partly because of variations between countries in the relative importance of the corporate sector and the self-employed.
Personal Income* as percentage of gross domestic product at current market prices 1981 1982 Belgium† 78.0 78.0 France 63.4 62.5 German Federal Republics‡ 67.8 66.8 Italy 76.5 76.9 Netherlands‡ 60.8 61.7 United Kingdom 67.6 67.5 * Personal income comprises wages and salaries, income from self-employment, and income from investments. † Includes employers' contributions to private pension schemes. ‡ Excludes re-invested earnings of the self-employed. Source: OECD National Accounts.