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1023634

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the annual growth rates of labour productivity in each year since 2000; and what rates they forecast for each year to 2022.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	uin	HL12191
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>Growth in labour productivity, 2000 – 2022</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year </strong> <strong>(</strong><sup>f</sup><strong> – forecast)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Output per hour worked, % change on previous year, seasonally adjusted</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>-0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>-1.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>-0.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>-0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018<sup>f</sup></p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019<sup>f</sup></p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020<sup>f</sup></p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021<sup>f</sup></p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022<sup>f</sup></p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ul><li>The table presents past and projected annual growth rates of UK labour productivity defined as output per hour worked.</li><li>The growth rates for the period 2000 to 2017 were obtained from the ONS (Labour productivity time series (PRDY), UK<em> Whole Economy: Output per hour worked % change per annum SA</em>, released 5th October 2018, <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/timeseries/lzvd/prdy" target="_blank">link</a>)</li><li>The projected future growth rates (2018 – 2022) were published by the Office for Budget Responsibility in the <em>Economic and Fiscal Outlook – October 2018</em> (page 87, Table 3.10 Detailed summary forecast, <a href="https://obr.uk/efo/economic-fiscal-outlook-october-2018/" target="_blank">link</a>)</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 19/12/2018 12:53:16 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe

1023636

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of analysis by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that the productivity gap between the UK and other developed countries is less than previously thought.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	uin	HL12192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>This analysis is a welcome initiative by the OECD to improve the international comparability of productivity statistics. It was initiated in response to a request from the ONS to examine how different countries go about measuring total hours worked (which are required to calculate output per hour worked).</p><p> </p><p>When calculating labour productivity there is a trade-off between using the best available data sourced from different countries’ national accounts, or data compiled on the most consistent basis. The OECD research finds that while for many countries this choice makes a minor difference, for the UK it has a larger effect and improves our performance relative to other countries.</p><p> </p><p>The ONS is examining how best to incorporate these findings into their international comparisons of labour productivity and plans to publish an article on this in January 2019; including more detailed breakdowns of how the UK compares with other developed countries on a more consistent basis.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 19/12/2018 12:53:54 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe

1038756

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve labour productivity in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL12721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>Raising labour productivity is at the heart of the Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy. The strategy aims to improve labour productivity by encouraging innovation, developing high quality jobs, supporting UK businesses and fostering growth in all parts of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>A year into the Industrial Strategy we have made significant progress towards these goals, including:</p><ul><li><strong>Investing substantially in skills </strong>– We are designing a National Retraining Scheme to support adults impacted by automation, investing £406 in STEM and technical education for people of all ages as well as introducing new T levels to provide a technical alternative to A levels, in addition to our reforms to apprenticeships.</li><li><strong>The biggest increase in R&amp;D funding ever</strong> – we have committed an extra £7bn by 2023/24, including £2.7bn already allocated to innovative programmes supporting industry and researchers through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.</li><li><strong>Record investment in infrastructure with £37bn committed through the National Productivity Investment Fund by 2023/24.</strong> This includes £2.45bn for Transforming Cities and £1bn in digital infrastructure.</li><li><strong>Publication of Nine Sector Deals</strong>, supporting billions in investment from the public and private sector and important sectoral reforms on issues such as technology diffusion and workforce diversity. A further three deals are being negotiated.</li><li><strong>Announcement of the first ‘missions’ under the Grand Challenges,</strong> aiming to galvanise action on ambitious and specific goals in AI &amp; Data, Clean Growth, the Future of Mobility and Ageing Society. This includes a second clean growth mission to decarbonise industrial clusters.</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 16/01/2019 16:58:50 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

224638

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the increase in the UK's total factor productivity was in each of the last 15 years.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	225955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have published experimental estimates of Multi-Factor Productivity (MFP), which is the terminology the ONS uses for total factor productivity. This is shown in Table 1.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2 displays an index of these data, showing cumulative growth in MFP over the last 15 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Annual Growth Rate of Multi-Factor Productivity </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1999</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2001</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2002</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2003</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2004</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2005</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2006</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2007</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>0.96</p></td><td><p>2.02</p></td><td><p>0.87</p></td><td><p>1.13</p></td><td><p>2.71</p></td><td><p>1.21</p></td><td><p>0.27</p></td><td><p>1.54</p></td><td><p>0.58</p></td><td><p>-0.94</p></td><td><p>-4.62</p></td><td><p>0.91</p></td><td><p>0.39</p></td><td><p>-1.81</p></td><td><p>-0.53</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Multi-Factor Productivity (1998=100)</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1999</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2001</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2002</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2003</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2004</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2005</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2006</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2007</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>101.0</p></td><td><p>103.0</p></td><td><p>103.9</p></td><td><p>105.0</p></td><td><p>107.7</p></td><td><p>108.9</p></td><td><p>109.2</p></td><td><p>110.7</p></td><td><p>111.3</p></td><td><p>110.4</p></td><td><p>105.7</p></td><td><p>106.6</p></td><td><p>107.0</p></td><td><p>105.2</p></td><td><p>104.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Multi-factor Productivity (experimental), Estimates to 2013, ONS (Jan 2015) <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-386314" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-386314</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/03/2015 16:47:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

228952

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the practical impact on United Kingdom productivity of net migration of 165,000 per year over the next five years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
	uin	HL5917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The government does not forecast either UK GDP or GDP per capita. The independent OBR in the March 2015 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) used the central ONS migration population projection. The ONS central migration projection is for net migration of 165,000 a year in 2018/19 and 2019/20. In the March 2015 EFO the OBR forecast that UK GDP per capita for those aged 16 and over will increase by 9.2% total between 2014 and 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In order to inform policy making, the government reviews and notes the wider evidence on the economic and productivity impacts of immigration on an ongoing basis. This evidence base includes the wider academic literature, and a range of reports commissioned or produced by the government looking at specific impacts, for example those produced by the independent Migration Advisory Committee. In addition, policies that influence migration are assessed using the government's impact assessment process which models the economic impact of the policy change using assumptions based on a range of evidence and the academic literature. Home Office Impact Assessments are published on gov.uk.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton grouped question UIN HL5915 question first answered 26/03/2015 13:57:25 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

347908

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the latest figures for the employee activity rates in (1) Wales, (2) Scotland, (3) Northern Ireland and (4) each of the regions of England.
	tabling member printed	Lord Wigley
	uin	HL194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member printed Lord Bridges of Headley attachment 1 file name HL194 Lord Wigley ONS Reply.pdf title UK Statistics Reply 2 file name HL194 Tables.xlsx title Referenced Tables question first answered 11/06/2015 16:01:22 answering member 4535 label Biography information for Lord Bridges of Headley
	tabling member	547 label Biography information for Lord Wigley

381137

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve the UK's productivity statistics.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	2547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 18/06/2015 12:50:56 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 2547 Sir Soames.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - UK's Productivity Stats
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

389709

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the sustainable rate of productive potential in the UK economy.
	tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
	tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
	uin	7048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>In 2010 the government established the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to provide independent and authoritative analysis of the UK’s public finances.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The OBR forecast in July 2015 that potential productivity will grow by 1.4 per cent in 2015, 1.8 per cent in 2016, 2.0 per cent in 2017, 2.1 per cent in 2018 and 2.2 per cent thereafter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/07/2015 14:41:07 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

390167

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of zombie companies on national productivity; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	7261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>Zombie companies are companies that are allowed by banks to delay repayment of a loan so that they effectively only pay the interest due rather than the full loan amount. Bank of England analysis of this ‘loan forbearance’ suggests that only a relatively small proportion of small businesses are in receipt of any form of forbearance (around 6% of SME borrowers in 2013). The Bank concludes that forbearance by banks on loans to small businesses would therefore appear to account for only a small proportion of the weakness in aggregate UK productivity. The Bank’s analysis was published in the Bank’s quarterly bulletin which can be found on the Bank of England’s website.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/07/2015 10:57:14 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

390168

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Productivity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of employee ownership on national productivity; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	7262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>We are not aware of any studies into the link between employee ownership and national productivity. Research published in 2014 by the Employee Ownership Association showed that businesses with employee ownership (where employees have both a meaningful financial stake and a say in how the business is run) had a year-on-year increase in productivity of 4.5%.</p><p> </p><p>The Government worked closely with experts, including from the Employee Ownership Association, in delivering the 2012 Nuttall Recommendations to reduce barriers to increasing the number of employee ownership businesses. This work was completed in 2014.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/07/2015 14:32:07 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching