Economic Statistics: City of York

Hugh Bayley
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the gross domestic product per head of resident population was in City of York (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) council area in each year since 1992.

John Healey
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 12 December 2006:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on annual per capita GDP for the City of York by parliamentary constituency and council area in each year since 1992. (106677)

Information on per capita GDP by parliamentary constituency and council area is not available.

However, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) do produce estimates of regional Gross Value Added1 (GVA) using Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (NUTS) areas. City of York is a NUTS Level 3 area (generally groups of unitary authorities or districts, also known as local areas), and data was published in December 2005 for the period 1995 to 2003. Data consistent with these estimates does not exist prior to 1995. Information is shown in the table below.

1 GVA is GDP less taxes plus subsidies on products.

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|    |GVA per head, York (£)|
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|1995|12,254                |
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|1996|13,109                |
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|1997|14,125                |
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|1998|15,003                |
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|1999|15,600                |
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|2000|16,159                |
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|2001|16,771                |
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|2002|17,608                |
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|2003|18,512                |
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