To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what are the most recent figures for (a) gross domestic product per capita and (b) the average wage in (i) Wales and (ii) each standard English planning regions. [4295]

The most recent figures for gross domestic product per capita in Wales and the English regions are for 1993. They are published in table 1, page 26 of the December 1994 edition of "Economic Trends". Figures for average earnings in Wales and the English regions are available for April 1995 and are published in table X5.3, part A, "New Earnings Survey 1995". Copies of these publications are in the Library of the House.