The Chancellor is always very keen to make economic comparisons between the United Kingdom economy and G7 counterparts, but UK output per hour is 17% below the G7 average and a huge 31% below the USA average. Is not that the root cause of this problem?
Productivity
Proceeding contribution from
Andrew Gwynne
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 17 June 2015.
It occurred during Opposition day on Productivity.
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2015-16
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