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Productivity

Volume 75: debated on Thursday 21 March 1985

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asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received about the growth of productivity in the United Kingdom.

References to productivity have been made from time to time in correspondence. Manufacturing Productivity has grown on average by 6½ per cent. per annum in the past four years. Whole economy productivity rose 3 per cent. per annum between 1980 and 1983.