To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish indices for (a) industrial production and (b) manufacturing output for (i) Scotland, (ii) Wales, (iii) the United Kingdom and (iv) the south-east from 1979 to the most recent available date.
(i) For Scotland, annual indices for industrial production and for manufacturing output from 1979 to 1989 were last published in the "Scottish Economic Bulletin" No. 41, June 1990. More recent quarterly figures are published in the Scottish index of production and construction quarterly press notice.(ii) For Wales, annual indices for industrial production and for manufacturing output from 1979 to 1987 are given in the table. More recent annual and quarterly figures are published in the Welsh index of production and construction quarterly press notice.
| 1985 = 100 | ||
| Industrial production | Manufacturing output | |
| 1979 | 112·1 | 104·7 |
| 1980 | 99·5 | 92·2 |
| 1981 | 97·7 | 93·7 |
Industrial production
| Manufacturing output
| |
| 1982 | 98·4 | 92·6 |
| 1983 | 99·6 | 95·8 |
| 1984 | 94·4 | 100·4 |
| 1985 | 100·0 | 100·0 |
| 1986 | 102·3 | 104·4 |
| 1987 | 111·0 | 115·7 |
(iii) For the United Kingdom, indices can be found on the CSO database, which is accessible through the House of Commons Library.
(iv) Regional indices of production for England are not compiled.