Written question asked by Kevin McNamara (Labour) on Wednesday, 9 December 1998, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 16 December 1998. It was answered by Lord Murphy of Torfaen (Labour) on Wednesday, 16 December 1998 on behalf of the Northern Ireland Office.

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Northern Ireland Office;Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the effect on data for Northern Ireland GDP of manufacturing company profit outflows; and what estimate she has made of the size of such outflows; what plans she has to provide provisional estimates of the main macro-sectoral aggregates in the intervals between the publication of regional accounts in order to facilitate planning by the public and private sector; if she will list the parties which have access to the data for Northern Ireland Regional Accounts on a confidential basis, before the data are published in Regional Trends; and on what criteria such parties are chosen; what plans she has to reformulate the Northern Ireland regional account in line with EUROSTAT standards; which Northern Ireland departments are responsible for the preparation of the Northern Ireland Regional Accounts; and what is the length of the period between the collection and completion of such accounts and their eventual publication by the National Statistics Office in Regional Trends. - Includes text of letter from EF Jardine of Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.

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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

322 c518-9W; 63973;63976;63970;63971;63969

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Accountancy Freedom of information EU action National income Northern Ireland Profits Statistics Standardisation