Manufacturing Productivity

HC Deb 19 April 1989 vol 151 cc179-80W

27. Mr. Brazier

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by what proportion manufacturing productivity has increased since 1980.

Mr. Maude

In the three months to February 1989 manufacturing productivity, as measured by output per person employed, was 55 per cent. higher than the 1980 average level.