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Estimates of regional economic growth, as measured by gross value added (GVA), are only produced at current prices and do not allow for changes in prices over time (inflation) or differences in regional price levels (purchasing power). They do not, therefore, show growth in real or volume terms.

The Office for National Statistics publishes regional gross value added using official statistical geographies known as nomenclature of units for territorial statistics (NUTS)¹. The NUTS classification corresponds to administrative boundaries of some, but not all, cities of the UK.

Table 1 shows annual growth for 2003 and 2004 in GVA per capita for each NUTS2 area of the UK. Table 2 shows annual percentage changes in GVA per capita for each NUTS3 area. The latest available estimates are for 2004.

The full range of published regional GVA estimates is available on the ONS website: www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14650.

1. The Nomenclature of units for territorial statistics (NUTS) provides a single uniform breakdown for the production of regional statistics for the European Union. There are three levels of NUTS in the UK. These are:

NUTS1: Government office regions and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

NUTS2: 37 areas—individual and groups of counties and unitary authorities.

NUTS3: 133 areas—generally groups of unitary authorities or districts, also known as local areas.

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Table 1
NUTS2 gross value added1 per capita percentage change
GVA per-capita percentage change	2003	2004
Tees Valley and Durham	4.8%	5.9%
Northumberland and Tyne and Wear	6.1%	5.9%
Cumbria	6.1%	5.5%
Cheshire	3.7%	4.5%
Greater Manchester	5.4%	5.8%
Lancashire	4.6%	5.2%
Merseyside	5.8%	5.5%
East Riding and North Lincolnshire	5.5%	5.0%
North Yorkshire	6.0%	5.2%
South Yorkshire	6.1%	5.6%
West Yorkshire	5.2%	4.9%
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire	6.1%	6.0%
Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire	6.7%	6.4%
Lincolnshire	6.4%	4.8%
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire	4.4%	4.9%
Shropshire and Staffordshire	5.7%	5.8%
West Midlands	4.9%	5.2%
East Anglia	6.2%	5.8%
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	5.1%	5.8%
Essex	7.4%	6.6%
Inner London	6.7%	5.8%
Outer London	4.9%	5.3%
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire	5.8%	5.8%
Surrey, East and West Sussex	4.6%	4.4%
Hampshire and Isle of Wight	5.4%	5.3%
Kent	5.4%	5.0%
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and North Somerset	6.6%	6.1%
Dorset and Somerset	4.7%	5.3%
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	6.8%	5.9%
Devon	5.5%	4.7%
West Wales and the Valleys	5.3%	5.4%
East Wales	5.6%	5.4%
North Eastern Scotland	3.6%	4.6%
Eastern Scotland	6.4%	5.4%
South Western Scotland	6.1%	5.8%
Highlands and Islands	7.1%	5.6%
Northern Ireland	5.7%	5.6%
1 GVA at current basic prices.

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Table 2
NUTS 3 gross value added1 per capita annual percentage change
GVA per head annual percentage change	2003	2004
Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees	4.3%	6.2%
South Teesside	7.2%	8.4%
Darlington	5.0%	4.8%
Durham CC	3.7%	4.6%
Northumberland	6.1%	6.0%
Tyneside	6.3%	5.8%
Sunderland	5.4%	5.9%
West Cumbria	4.4%	4.5%
East Cumbria	7.4%	6.2%
Halton and Warrington	5.5%	7.6%
Cheshire CC	2.8%	2.9%
Greater Manchester South	5.9%	6.0%
Greater Manchester North	4.5%	5.4%
Blackburn with Darwen	4.6%	5.9%
Blackpool	4.2%	4.7%
Lancashire CC	4.7%	5.1%
East Merseyside	5.5%	5.5%
Liverpool :	6.5%	5.7%
Sefton	6.1%	5.6%
Wirral	4.3%	4.7%
Kingston upon Hull, City of	6.1%	5.9%
East Riding of Yorkshire	5.6%	4.4%
North and North East Lincolnshire	4.9%	5.0%
York	5.3%	5.3%
North Yorkshire CC	6.3%	5.1%
Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham	6.3%	6.1%
Sheffield	6.0%	4.9%
Bradford	3.1%	3.7%
Leeds	6.2%	5.2%
Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield	5.2%	5.0%
Derby	3.3%	4.6%
East Derbyshire	6.3%	5.5%
South and West Derbyshire	6.3%	6.2%
Nottingham	7.6%	7.5%
North Nottinghamshire	5.9%	5.7%
South Nottinghamshire	6.3%	5.9%
Leicester	6.8%	6.7%
Leicestershire CC and Rutland	7.2%	6.4%
Northamptonshire	6.3%	6.3%
Lincolnshire	6.4%	4.8%
Herefordshire, County of	4.9%	5.1%
Worcestershire	5.9%	6.3%
Warwickshire	3.0%	3.5%
Telford and Wrekin	5.0%	5.3%
Shropshire CC	7.0%	6.2%
Stoke-on-Trent	5.6%	5.6%
Staffordshire CC	5.5%	5.8%
Birmingham	4.4%	4.8%
Solihull	7.3 %	6.3%
Coventry	4.0%	5.1%
Dudley and Sandwell	4 3 %	4.9%
Walsall and Wolverhampton	4.7%	5.5%
Peterborough	7.9%	7.7%
Cambridgeshire CC	6.3%	5.6%
Norfolk'	6.2%	5.9%
Suffolk	5.3%	5.3%
Luton	5.0%	5.9%
Bedfordshire CC	5 2%	5.6%
Hertfordshire	5.2%	5.9%
Southend-on-Sea	6.6%	7.1%
Thurrock	6.5%	7.3%
Essex CC	7 6%	6.5%
Inner London—West	4.3%	3.4%
Inner London—East	9.4%	7.7%
Outer London—East and North East	5 0%	5.7%
Outer London—South	6.2%	5.9%
Outer London—West and North West	4.4%	4.8%
Berkshire	5.3%	5.3%
Milton Keynes	7.5%	6.9%
Buckinghamshire CC	5.7%	6.1%
Oxfordshire	6.2%	5.8%
Brighton and Hove	5.2%	4.7%
East Sussex CC	4.9%	5.1%
Surrey	4.9%	4.6%
West Sussex	3.9%	3.6%
Portsmouth	5.4%	5.2%
Southampton	6.7%	6.1%
Hampshire CC	5.3%	5.4%
Isle of Wight	3.4%	3.0%
Medway	4.3%	4.8%
Kent CC	5.6%	5.0%
Bristol, City of	5.6%	5.4%
North and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire	7.6%	6.8%
Gloucestershire	8.1%	6.7%
Swindon	5.3%	6.1%
Wiltshire CC	5.3%	5.2%
Bournemouth and Poole	5.2%	5.6%
Dorset CC	4.5%	5.4%
Somerset	4.7%	5.1%
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	6.8%	5.9%
Plymouth	5.0%	4.4%
Torbay	3.1%	4.5%
Devon CC	6.0%	4.9%
Isle of Anglesey	5.3%	4.4%
Gwynedd	8.5%	5.9%
Conwy and Denbighshire	6.3%	5.6%
South West Wales	4.4%	4.5%
Central Valleys	5.4%	5.5%
Gwent Valleys	3.9%	5.4%
Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot	4.2%	5.0%
Swansea	6.4%	6.5%
Monmouthshire and Newport	5.6%	5.6%
Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan	7.1%	6.3%
Flintshire and Wrexham	2.3%	3.7%
Powys	6.3%	4.5%
Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and North East Moray	3.6%	4.6%
Angus and Dundee City	7.4%	6.3%
Clackmannanshire and Fife	5.3%	5.1%
East Lothian and Midlothian	7.9%	6.5%
Scottish Borders	5.0%	3.7%
Edinburgh, City of	7.1%	5.2%
Falkirk	5.3%	5.2%
Perth & Kinross and Stirling	6.2%	5.4%
West Lothian	4.3%	5.3%
East and West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh & Lomond	5.5%	6.5%
Dumfries and Galloway	4.0%	3.0%
East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire Mainland	4.9%	5.2%
Glasgow City	7.1%	6.1%
Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire	5.8%	6.7%
North Lanarkshire	7.7%	6.2%
South Ayrshire	4.2%	5.0%
South Lanarkshire	4.3%	4.4%
Caithness & Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty	7.5%	5.9%
Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey	9.5%	6.5%
Lochaber, Skye & Lochalsh and Argyll and the Islands	3 3%	3.5%
Eilean Siar (Western Isles)	9.4%	7.2%
Orkney Islands	6.6%	5.5%
Shetland Islands	6.3%	5.4%
Belfast	7.2%	7.3%
Outer Belfast	4.8%	4.9%
East of Northern Ireland	4.9%	4.9%
North of Northern Ireland	5.3%	5.0%
West and South of Northern Ireland	6.6%	6.1%
1 GVA at current basic prices

Lord Morris of Manchester asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is the percentage of worklessness in Manchester compared to the national average.[HL2637]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Lord McKenzie of Luton): The level of worklessness in Greater Manchester is 28.1 per cent. The level of worklessness in the UK is 25.9 per cent.

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