§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's expenditure in England, Wales, Scotland and the United Kingdom, respectively, during the latest year for which information is available.
§ Dr. GilbertFirm figures are not available, since Defence expenditure is not accounted for on a regional basis. We do, however, make a broad assessment annually of the initial incidence of expenditure which takes no account of such aspects as contracts let to firms in one area being sub-contracted to other areas. It would involve disproportionate effort to judge the extent of this sort of movement between regions.
Subject to those reservations, the approximate figures for 1975–76 were: England, £4,540 million; Wales, £190 million; Scotland, £430 million; and the United Kingdom, £5,300 million.