HC Deb 15 March 1989 vol 149 c267W
65. Mr. McCartney

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in which position Britain lies in an Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development league table for manufacturing productivity.

Mr. Atkins

No reliable comparison exists for absolute levels of productivity between different countries. But available figures do show that in the 1980s the United Kingdom has had the fastest rate of growth of manufacturing productivity of all the major industrialised countries.