§ Mr. Stephen O'BrienTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of total UK company turnover has been spent on(a) company taxation, (b) national insurance contributions and (c) corporation tax in each of the last 10 years. [148182]
§ Dawn PrimaroloIt is not possible from the tax records available centrally to provide the information requested.
§ Mr. Stephen O'BrienTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the productivity of UK companies with(a) 1–49, (b) 50–99, (c) 100–249, (d) 250–499, (e) 500–999 and (f) more than 1,000 employees has been in each quarter since 1997. [148178]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl to Mr. Stephen O'Brien, dated 15 January 2004:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question on the productivity of UK companies. I am replying in his absence. (148178)The Office for National Statistics does not produce quarterly (or annual) estimates of productivity by size band of number of employees. Existing quarterly surveys are not suitable for producing output series by size band. They have a relatively small sample and do not include the very smallest companies (1–9 employees) and include very few with fewer than 50 employees in order to limit the statistical reporting burden on business.