The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 5 March 2008:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question about the rate of economic growth and inward investment for each of the English regions in each year for which figures are available. (191355)
ONS currently publish regional Gross Value Added (GVA). These data are published in Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (NUTS) regions and data for the Government Office regions of England (NUTS1 data) run from 1989 to 2006 on a consistent basis. These data are at current prices, therefore the effects of inflation are not taken into account.
ONS do not publish regional inward investment data.
The year on year percentage growth rate of the level of GVA for the time period 1990-2006 are presented in tables A and B.
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 United Kingdom 8.7 4.4 4.3 5.1 5.7 5.3 6.5 5.8 6.0 North East 8.1 5.2 4.8 4.1 4.6 4.2 4.0 4.1 4.3 North West 8.2 4.0 4.2 4.6 5.2 4.5 4.7 5.0 5.4 Yorkshire and Humber 8.2 4.5 3.9 4.1 5.1 5.7 6.0 5.6 5.2 East Midlands 8.3 4.2 4.3 4.6 5.9 5.8 6.2 5.9 5.1 West Midlands 8.5 3.7 4.3 5.1 6.3 5.5 5.5 6.0 5.6 East of England 9.4 3.8 4.2 4.7 5.5 5.3 6.0 6.2 7.0 London 8.5 5.5 4.8 6.1 5.0 3.7 7.2 7.7 8.8 South East 9.1 4.8 4.6 5.4 6.2 6.3 7.4 7.8 8.2 South West 9.4 4.1 4.2 5.3 5.6 5.7 7.3 6.6 6.3 England 8.7 4.5 4.4 5.1 5.5 5.2 6.3 6.4 6.7
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 United Kingdom 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.4 6.0 5.9 4.2 5.3 North East 2.9 3.3 4.8 4.9 6.1 6.4 4.9 5.5 North West 4.1 3.6 4.9 4.8 5.5 5.5 3.4 4.5 Yorkshire and Humber 3.3 3.6 5.2 5.6 5.9 5.6 3.5 4.6 East Midlands 3.5 3.6 5.8 5.8 6.7 6.3 4.2 5.0 West Midlands 3.7 3.6 4.7 4.4 5.0 5.1 3.6 5.0 East of England 5.4 5.3 5.9 5.0 5.7 5.3 3.5 4.7 London 6.6 4.4 5.2 8.2 7.5 7.2 5.4 5.7 South East 6.0 4.9 5.8 4.9 5.7 5.5 3.9 5.1 South West 5.1 4.5 6.0 6.0 6.7 6.5 4.1 5.4 England 5.0 4.3 5.4 5.7 6.2 6.0 4.1 5.1