HC Deb 21 July 1927 vol 209 c592W
Mr. BENNETT

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amount per head of the population expended in respect of each of the public services undertaken or contributed to by the State in 1913 and in 1926–27, respectively?

Mr. McNEILL

The amounts issued from the Exchequer to meet expenditure in the years 1913–14 and 1926–27 divided by the population taken as 45,713,000 (Great Britain and Ireland) for 1913 and 45,227,000 (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) for 1926 are as follow: