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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the most recent industrial and manufacturing production figures; and what assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's policies on the levels of industrial production and manufacturing.

Asked by

Iain Wright (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 December 2011

Reference

86214; 537 c816W

House

House of Commons

Economic Indicators, October 2011

This Research Paper series summarises the main economic indicators currently available for the UK, along with comparisons with other major OECD countries.

Type

Commons Briefing papers

Date

4 October 2011

Reference

RP11-67

Imports of Animal Products

As required under the Animal Health Act 1981 (as amended by the Animal Health Act 2002) the Government will publish today a review of controls on the import of animal products for the financial year 2010-11. Following my first year as Minister of State responsible for agriculture and food, I...

Member

James Paice (Conservative)

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written statements

Date

13 September 2011

Reference

532 c42-3WS

House

House of Commons

Animal Products: Review of Controls

My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food has today made the following Statement. As required under the Animal Health Act 1981 (as amended by the Animal Health Act 2002) the Government will publish today a review of controls on the import of animal products for...

Member

Lord Henley (Conservative)

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written statements

Date

13 September 2011

Reference

730 c45WS

House

House of Lords

Economic Indicators, September 2011

This Research Paper series summarises the main economic indicators currently available for the UK, along with comparisons with other major OECD countries.

Type

Commons Briefing papers

Date

6 September 2011

Reference

RP11-65

Agriculture: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the recommendations of the International Assessment for Agricultural Science and Technology for Development on consulting farmers on the technology required to increase productivity in the food sector.

Asked by

William Bain (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 September 2011

Reference

69446; 532 c371W

House

House of Commons

Economic Indicators, August 2011

This Research Paper series summarises the main economic indicators currently available for the UK, along with comparisons with other major OECD countries.

Type

Commons Briefing papers

Date

2 August 2011

Reference

RP11-59

Economic Indicators, July 2011

This Research Paper series summarises the main economic indicators currently available for the UK, along with comparisons with other major OECD countries.

Type

Commons Briefing papers

Date

5 July 2011

Reference

RP11-55

NHS: Productivity

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 24 March (WA 203), what are the measures of quality used to adjust the growth in the volume of outputs in NHS productivity calculations; how each measure of quality is calculated; and how it affects the...

Asked by

Lord Mawhinney (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 July 2011

Reference

10278; 729 c47WA

House

House of Lords

NHS: Productivity

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 24 March (WA 203), in calculating NHS productivity, why adjustments are made in calculating input volume for (a) waiting times, (b) survival rates, (c) outcomesfrom interventions in primary care, and (d) patient experience; and, in each...

Asked by

Lord Mawhinney (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

4 July 2011

Quality adjustments are made to the quantity of output produced by the National Health Service, not the quantity of input used. NHS productivity growth is measured as the ratio of the growth in the volume of outputs to the growth in the volume of inputs. Where the quality of the output changes (for example improved health outcomes following medical interventions), an adjustment is made to reflect that this is desirable, even if the count of the activity (for example number of hip operations) is unchanged. This approach was adopted following a review undertaken by Sir Tony Atkinson at the request of the National Statistician, which set out a principled framework for measuring government output in the National Accounts within international guidelines. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) adjust output for two dimensions of quality: the extent to which the service succeeds in delivering its intended outcomes; and the extent to which the service is responsive to users' needs. The first of these includes adjustments for survival rates, health gain following treatment in hospital, changes in waiting times and outcomes from intervention in primary care. The second dimension encapsulates changes to patient experience. Adjustments to output are made for the fact that there are negative welfare effects of having to wait for hospital treatment. The adjustment is calculated by observing changes in the 80th percentile of waiting time distribution for each category of inpatient activity and assigning a benefit (disbenefit) to a reduction (increase) in the time waited. An adjustment is then made for any differences in health outcomes. Since changes in health outcomes are not observed directly for every procedure, an indirect method is used. This combines changes in short term (30 day) survival rates following treatment, and a post treatment health gain following survival, based on inferred data from 30 different treatments, all allowing for changes in healthy life expectancy. The effects of changes in waiting times and health outcomes are then applied multiplicatively to the change in the quantity of activity undertaken. Separate adjustments are then made for changes in patient experience, which are estimated by observing changes in patient satisfaction expressed by patients in national patient surveys for inpatients and outpatients. A 1 per cent improvement in patient experience would increase the output index by 1 per cent, weighted by the relative costs of the survey settings. The overall effect of this adjustment has been negligible over the past eight years given the very small movements in patient survey responses. The final adjustment looks at the change in outcomes from primary medical care interventions and measures the quality of general practices by observing the change in the proportion of patients who have achieved a desired clinical target after being diagnosed with hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke or chronic kidney disease. Consultations which give rise to improved condition management are assumed to have 30 per cent more value than those which do not. Between 2001 and 2009, quality adjustments added an average of 0.9 percentage points a year to output growth. The effect of the quality adjustments on total output is shown in the following table.

Table B1: Contribution of the quality adjustment to output growth
Year	Quantity Growth	Quality Adjustment	Output Growth
2001	6.1%	-0.2%	5.9%
2002	4.0%	1.0%	5.1%
2003	4.6%	0.9%	5.5%
2004	3.6%	1.0 %	4.7%
2005	3.7 %	1.0 %	4.7%
2006	3.1%	0.5%	3.6%
2007	2.9 %	0.3%	3.3%
2008	5.5%	0.8%	6.4%
2009	5.0%	2.0%	7.1%
Average (2001-09)	4.3%	0.8%	5.1%

"Source: Calculated from figures published in Public Service Output, Inputs and Productivity: Healthcare. ONS, March 2011."

Date

4 July 2011

Reference

10279; 729 c19-21WA

House

House of Lords

NHS: Productivity

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 24 March (WA 203), why output activities are weighted by their average costs in the National Health Service productivity calculations; and how such calculations of output are made.

Asked by

Lord Mawhinney (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 July 2011

Reference

10277; 729 c19WA

House

House of Lords

NHS: Productivity

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 24 March (WA 203), in determining NHS productivity, what deflating spend means when applied to the calculation of volume of outputs.

Asked by

Lord Mawhinney (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

30 June 2011

National Health Service productivity growth is measured as the ratio of the growth in the volume of outputs to growth in the volume of inputs. No spend data are used in the calculation of volume of outputs in the NHS productivity measure. Spend data are used in the calculation of the volume of inputs where there is no data available to count inputs directly, (bandages and dressings for example). Spend data are adjusted for inflation (deflated) to enable a comparison of input volumes between two time periods, as required to calculate NHS productivity growth. The measure of the volume of inputs must only reflect quantity but spend data reflect both the quantity and price of inputs. So, deflating spend removes the effect of price increases. Different deflators are used for different inputs. There are three broad categories of healthcare inputs: labour, goods and services and capital consumption. Goods and services are measured in three parts: GP prescribed drugs, healthcare purchased from outside the NHS and other goods and services. Expenditure data are used to measure healthcare purchased from outside the NHS and other goods and services. All other inputs are directly measured. Spend on other goods and services in Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) is deflated using the Health Service Cost Index (HSCI). The HSCI is calculated monthly to measure the price change for 41 sub-indices of goods and services purchased by the HCHS. The sub-indices are weighted together according to the proportion of total expenditure which they represent. Spend on other goods and services in primary care is deflated using the retail Prices index as no specific deflator is available. Spend on healthcare purchased from outside the NHS is deflated using the HCHS pay and price index; no specific price deflators are available for healthcare purchased outside the NHS. The HCHS pay and price index is a weighted average of the HSCI (described above) and the pay cost index. The PCI is a weighted average of increases in staff unit costs for each staff group within the HCHS sector. The HSCI and PCI are weighted together to calculate the HSCI by their expenditure shares.

Date

30 June 2011

Reference

10280; 728 c476-7WA

House

House of Lords

Innovation in EU Agriculture. European Union Select Committee (HL) nineteenth report.

Type

Select Committee reports; House of Lords papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

European Union Committee

Date

28 June 2011

Reference

HL 171 2010-12

House

House of Lords

Deposited Paper DEP2011-0844

I. Realising the potential of GB rail: report of the Rail Value for Money study: summary report [McNulty report]. 77 p. II. Realising the potential of GB rail: final independent report of the Rail Value for Money study: detailed report. 320 p. III. InterCity West Coast Franchise: draft invitation to...

Deposited by

Department for Transport; Rail Value for Money Review

Type

Deposited papers

Date

19 May 2011

Reference

DEP2011-0844

House

House of Commons

Treasury minute on the nineteenth to twenty-first and twenty-third reports from the Public Accounts Committee session 2010-11. (HC 651, HC 688, HC 721 and HC 687).

Type

Command papers

Date

16 May 2011

Reference

Cm 8069

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper DEP2011-0645

Letter dated 06/04/2011 from Lord Sassoon to Baroness Coussins regarding Economy: Growth - debate. 2 p.

Deposited by

Treasury

Type

Deposited papers

Date

6 April 2011

Reference

DEP2011-0645

House

House of Lords

Deposited Paper DEP2011-0644

Letter dated 06/04/2011 from Lord Sassoon to Lord Rees of Ludlow regarding Economy: Growth - debate. 1 p.

Deposited by

Treasury

Type

Deposited papers

Date

6 April 2011

Reference

DEP2011-0644

House

House of Lords

Deposited Paper DEP2011-0643

Letter dated 06/04/2011 from Lord Sassoon to Baroness Prosser regarding Economy: Growth - debate. 1 p.

Deposited by

Treasury

Type

Deposited papers

Date

6 April 2011

Reference

DEP2011-0643

House

House of Lords

Economy: Growth

Lords debate on motion to call attention to the case for policies to support economic growth and to promote investment, innovation, technology, infrastructure, skills and job creation. Motion withdrawn.

Lead member

Lord Hollick

Answering member

Lord Sassoon

Department

Treasury

Type

Debates

Date

31 March 2011

Reference

726 c1346-96

House

House of Lords

Economy: Growth

My Lords, the prime requirement for growth is a stable economic environment. That is the golden rule. Noble Lords will recall that the previous Government had a different rule. In his first Budget, Chancellor George Osborne had to report that Gordon Brown’s golden rule about restricting the country’s borrowing had...

Member

Baroness Wheatcroft (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

31 March 2011

Reference

726 c1377-8

House

House of Lords

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