Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Penn on 6 July (HL Deb col 1304) giving the relative gross domestic product (GDP) per head for Wales and the UK, what is the relative GDP per head for each region of England.
The latest data published by the Office for National Statistics shows that in 2021, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per head, at current prices, was £25,665 for Wales, and £33,745 for the UK. The GDP per head for London (£59,855) and the South East (£36,174) was higher than the UK average. GDP per head in the North East (£24,575), the East Midlands (£27,505), the Yorkshire and the Humber (£27,692), the South West (£29,628), the North West (£29,681), and the East of England (£30,442), was lower than the UK average.