NATIONAL INCOME: SOUTH EAST
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what the gross value added was for the (a) Brighton and Hove and (b) South Hampshire built-up areas in the latest period for which figures are available; [199401]
(2) what the gross value added per capita was for the (a) Brighton and Hove and (b) South Hampshire built-up areas in the latest period for which figures are available. [199400]
Mr Hurd, Minister for Civil Society: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Peter Fullerton, dated June 2014:
On behalf of the Director General for the Office for National Statistics I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions (199400 and 199401) asking the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the latest estimates of gross value added (GVA) and GVA per capita were for the (a) Brighton and Hove, and (b) South Hampshire built-up areas.
ONS produces regional estimates of GVA for areas according to the European classification Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS). The smallest areas for which GVA estimates are produced are at the NUTS3 level, which generally corresponds to counties and unitary authority areas.
There is a NUTS3 area that corresponds directly to the Brighton and Hove unitary authority area. However, for South Hampshire there is no single area that matches your request. There are NUTS3 areas for both Portsmouth and Southampton unitary authorities, with the remainder of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight having separate NUTS3 areas.
Below are the latest figures (provisional estimates for the year 2012) for Brighton and Hove, Portsmouth, Southampton, and a combined Portsmouth/Southampton aggregation that is not published but has been calculated by combining the two NUTS3 areas.
| Area | Total GVA (£ million) | GVA per capita (£) |
| Brighton and Hove | 5,712 | 20,712 |
| Portsmouth | 4,471 | 21,617 |
| Southampton | 4,656 | 19,446 |
| Portsmouth and Southampton | 9,127 | 20,452 |
These figures are taken from the Regional GVA (Income Approach) statistical bulletin published in December 2013:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/regional-accounts/regional-gross-value-add...