HC Deb 20 December 1990 vol 183 c256W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was (i) the gross domestic product in Wales and (ii) the income per head in Wales, as percentages of the United Kingdom average in the latest available year.

Mr. David Hunt

In 1988, the total gross domestic product per head for Wales was estimated to be 84.0 per cent. of the United Kingdom average (excluding the continental shelf region). These 1988 figures are provisional and revised set, together with provisional figures for 1989, will be published in the November 1990 issue ofEconomic Trends (No. 445) on 28 December 1990, a copy of which will be placed in the Library.

Wales' total personal income per head in 1988 was provisionally estimated to be 83.9 per cent. of the United Kingdom average while household income per head in that year was provisionally estimated to be 84.6 per cent. of the national figure.