Written question asked by Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative) on Tuesday, 11 December 2018, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 27 December 2018. It was answered by Lord Henley (Conservative) on Wednesday, 19 December 2018 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Productivity

Question: 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.

Answer

Growth in labour productivity, 2000 – 2022

Year (^f – forecast)	Output per hour worked, % change on previous year, seasonally adjusted
2000	3.2
2001	1.5
2002	2.4
2003	2.9
2004	1.2
2005	2.0
2006	1.8
2007	1.5
2008	-0.6
2009	-1.5
2010	1.3
2011	1.1
2012	-0.7
2013	-0.4
2014	0.6
2015	1.0
2016	0.5
2017	0.8
2018^f	0.8
2019^f	0.8
2020^f	0.9
2021^f	1.0
2022^f	1.1

The table presents past and projected annual growth rates of UK labour productivity defined as output per hour worked.
The growth rates for the period 2000 to 2017 were obtained from the ONS (Labour productivity time series (PRDY), UK Whole Economy: Output per hour worked % change per annum SA, released 5th October 2018, link)
The projected future growth rates (2018 – 2022) were published by the Office for Budget Responsibility in the Economic and Fiscal Outlook – October 2018 (page 87, Table 3.10 Detailed summary forecast, link)

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