§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list, for each regional area of the United Kingdom, and by industry groups, the gross domestic fixed capital formation for 1979 and for the most recent year for which figures are available, at current prices and at 1979 prices.
§ Mr. ButcherConstant price figures are not available. The latest published current price series for the years 1974 and 1980 to 1982 appeared at page 92 of the November
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Net capital expenditure in manufacturing industry* at current prices £ million Standard regions of England Wales Scotland Northern Ireland United Kingdom Industry Year North Yorkshire and Humberside East Midlands East Anglia South East South West West Midlands North West (Class of Standard Industrial Classification Revised 1980) Extraction and preparation of 1980 † -0.9 † † † † † † † † † -0.4 metalliferous ores 1982 -0.1 -0.3 -0.2 — — † — † † † † 1.2 Metal manufacturing 1980 31.4 64.0 18.8 1.1 25.3 9.6 53.9 16.8 88.0 36.8 0.4 346.1 1982 39.7 46.2 7.2 0.8 16.5 4.2 28.2 11.9 60.2 11.2 0.2 226.3 Extraction of minerals not 1980 4.1 1.8 3.1 2.6 12.0 14.5 3.5 7.7 1.2 3.2 0.7 53.3 elsewhere specified 1982 2.1 1.4 3.2 3.2 12.1 * 5.4 * * * * 52.1 Manufacture of non-metallic 1980 23.2 35.1 3.8 8.9 64.9 25.1 35.6 98.5 26.5 42.1 11.2 404.9 mineral products 1982 18.0 38.2 30.2 6.2 47.2 23.5 36.6 37.7 17.4 20.6 10.3 285.8 Chemical industry 1980 162.2 81.1 46.8 18.5 163.3 18.2 22.0 304.8 57.2 109.3 19.9 1,003.4 1982 58.9 52.9 33.4 18.5 175.9 15.7 19.2 222.5 59.3 154.9 3.0 814.3 Production of man-made fibres 1980 † 5.0 † † † † † † † † 11.2 41.5 1982 † 3.3 † — † † † † † † 3.8 16.5 Manufacture of metal goods not 1980 14.9 26.5 36.0 8.4 61.0 13.8 101.6 26.9 7.4 16.0 1.0 313.4 elsewhere specified 1982 8.6 16.8 27.3 7.5 41.2 6.7 58.8 22.3 7.3 11.6 0.7 208.7 Mechanical engineering 1980 51.6 75.8 61.7 23.2 135.8 48.0 74.5 65.2 17.0 70.2 7.6 630.6 1982 55.7 50.4 48.6 42.0 114.2 39.3 47.3 75.0 17.5 52.4 16.1 558.6 Manufacture of office machinery 1980 † 0.2 0.6 0.3 26.3 0.8 3.1 † † 20.6 † 56.0 and data processing equipment 1982 0.1 0.4 0.9 0.4 36.5 1.1 -1.3 0.4 0.1 21.2 0.1 59.9 Electrical and electronic 1980 32.2 17.6 21.3 10.9 182.1 23.8 54.6 53.0 26.9 46.8 6.2 475.4 engineering 1982 28.0 17.5 28.1 13.3 184.6 32.8 41.8 59.2 35.9 52.6 8.1 501.8 Manufacture of motor vehicles 1980 9.8 16.1 18.4 9.0 229.8 15.8 170.2 87.0 54.8 16.9 0.5 628.4 and parts thereof 1982 4.0 10.8 5.3 2.8 201.1 11.5 142.2 41.9 36.4 10.6 1.1 467.6 1984 issue of "Economic Trends". Comparable updated figures for 1979 are not readily available and would be costly to compile. More up-to-date information will be published in the November 1985 issue of "Economic Trends".
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list, for each regional area and by Government service, the gross domestic fixed capital formation for 1979 and for the most recent year for which figures are available (a) at 1979 prices and (b) at current prices.
§ Mr. ButcherThe information requested is not available at constant prices. Analyses by Government service are not readily available for 1979 and would be costly to compile. Available figures, expressed at current prices, were published for years 1974 and 1980 to 1982 at pages 92 and 93 of the November 1984 issue of "Economic Trends". More up-to-date information will be published in the November 1985 issue of "Economic Trends".