§ Mr. Stephen O'BrienTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the rate of productivity growth was in each region of the UK in each of the last five years. [146131]
§ Ruth KellyI have been asked to reply.
1175WThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Stephen O'Brien, dated 20 January 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question on the productivity of UK companies. (146131)The Office for National Statistics (ONS) does not currently produce estimates of productivity growth by region. Current regional productivity measures estimate the relative performance of regions at a point in time.We do, however, produce figures on Regional output per hour worked and Regional output per filled job for 1996–2001. These figures can be accessed from the ONS website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/tsdataset.asp?vink = 4858&More = Y and http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/tsdataset.asp?vInk = 4860&More = Y