§ Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the levels of(a) manufacturing output and (b) employment in the manufacturing sector were in (i) Greater London and (ii) each London borough in each of the last five years. [158452]
§ Ruth KellyI have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl to Simon Hughes dated 15 March 2004:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on levels of (a) manufacturing output and (b) employment in the manufacturing sector in (i) Greater London and (ii) each London Borough in each of the last five years. I am replying in his absence. (158452)The information given in the attached tables on employment and Gross Value Added (GVA) in the manufacturing sector is taken from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI). Data on GVA are provided from 1998 to 2001, the most recent year for which estimates are available. Data on employment are provided from 1998 to 2002, although estimates for 2002 are provisional. Data have not been supplied prior to 1998 since this was the first year in which the ABI was carried out; 1997 data would be from a different data collection exercise and would therefore not be comparable. The Annual Business Inquiry samples businesses on a national level stratified by country (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) as well as by industrial classification and size 68W band. Outputs are primarily produced at national level, with sub-national outputs (as shown in the tables) produced subsequently using a regression model to apportion the data to local units. All sub-national data should therefore be treated with caution. This particularly applies to borough-level data since small area estimates have greater sampling and modelling uncertainty.Approximate Gross Value Added represents the income generated by businesses, encompassing wages and salaries, the cost of capital investment and financial charges, and profit. It includes taxes on production (e.g. business rates) net of subsidies but excludes subsidies and taxes on products (e.g. VAT and excise duty). The estimates shown are at current prices and hence are not adjusted for inflation The estimates for the number of employees by area are based on the location of the employing company, but it must be emphasised that they are derived from a regression model and are not actual counts of employees.
Gross Value Added (GVA)1 at current2 basic prices by the manufacturing sector3 in Greater London and in London boroughs, 1998–2001 £million Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 Greater London 13404.4 14274.8 13050.1 13606.2 London Boroughs Barking and Dagenham 1179.7 838.2 372.3 381.5 Barnet 150.8 153.8 132.6 147.5 Bexley 329.1 400.2 329.4 446.0 Brent 588.9 551.7 500.7 527.9 Bromley 194.9 206.2 183.0 262.7 Camden 598.1 665.2 702.8 700.1 City of London 212.0 174.5 188.7 167.5 Croydon 378.6 431.4 378.5 336.2 Ealing 618.0 846.3 797.1 1155.5 Enfield 479.8 487.3 410.6 404.5 Greenwich 425.1 388.5 483.9 244.6 Hackney 346.0 321.4 276.8 277.9 Hammersmith and Fulham 280.0 351.0 460.8 518.9 Haringey 264.2 265.4 214.9 223.8 Harrow 435.5 691.4 305.6 203.1 Havering 234.9 270.4 208.8 230.9 Hillingdon 607.6 727.1 726.0 1070.9 Hounslow 526.1 481.7 611.6 470.1 Islington 419.7 475.6 476.2 520.8 Kensington and Chelsea 337.9 316.3 285.5 295.1 Kingston upon Thames 222.8 242.4 265.0 271.2 Lambeth 152.0 159.0 149.2 159.5 Lewisham 99.3 112.4 107.1 127.3 Merton 318.4 462.7 292.6 307.6 Newham 288.9 434.3 303.1 331.8 Redbridge 159.0 171.0 163.2 161.2 Richmond upon Thames 185.5 275.6 291.5 244.8 Southwark 614.6 746.7 814.9 669.7 Sutton 202.4 238.0 218.4 253.4 Tower Hamlets 1129.1 948.7 1128.1 1062.1 Waltham Forest 251.9 281.9 242.9 230.8 Wandsworth 181.1 181.0 189.4 199.4 Westminster 992.5 977.8 839.0 1001.9 Source:
ONS Annual Business Inquiry
69W1Gross Value Added (GVA) was used as the most appropriate measure of manufacturing output as it excludes intermediate consumption that could lead to double counting
2Current price estimates are not adjusted to take account of inflation
3The data provided are for the manufacturing sector defined as sector D (Manufacturing) in the Standard Industrial Classification 1992(SIC92)