To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish an index of production and construction for Scotland by market sector, indicating an annual figure for each year from 1974 up to and including 1990; and if he will give the figures for the first three quarters of 1991.

:[holding answer 9 March 1992]: An index of production and construction for Scotland (1985 = 100) by market sector, with annual figures for each year from 1974 up to and including 1990, and quarterly figures for the first three quarters of 1991, is set out in the table.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will indicate the annual average change in (a) total output and (b) manufacturing output in real terms between (i) 1974 and 1979 and (ii) 1979 and 1990 in (1) Scotland and (2) the United Kingdom.

[holding answer 9 March 1992]: The annual average changes in (a) total output and (b) manufacturing output in real terms between (i) 1974 and 1979 and (ii) 1979 and 1989, the latest year for which all figures are available, in (1) Scotland and (2) the United Kingdom are set out in the table:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish an updated table of Scotland's share of United Kingdom gross domestic product per head of population excluding the continental shelf for each year since 1961.

[holding answer 9 March 1992]: The information requested is available on a consistent basis only from 1971 onward. The table gives the requested information up to 1990 the latest year for which figures are available.