HC Deb 30 January 1996 vol 270 cc610-1W
Mr. Wigley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of the Secretary of State for Wales of 19 January 1996,Official Report, column 838, what are the reasons for the unavailability of the gross domestic product figures for the years after 1991.[11963]

Mrs. Angela Knight

Gross domestic product figures by county for 1993 would normally have been published in December 1995 inEconomic Trends. However, extensive revisions to the figures for earlier years are necessary due to source data on the new standard industrial classification, SIC(92), becoming available. Since these data became available very late, it was not possible to produce county estimates at that time. The county figures will now be published by the end of March 1996.