§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a table showing, for each year from 1979–80 to 1982–83, the amount of defence expenditure which was made in Wales.
§ Mr. BlakerAs I explained in my reply of 6 April—[Vol. 21, c. 312]—defence expenditure is not accounted for on a regional basis.
§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a table showing for the current year, or the nearest available year, the defence expenditure per head of population, in £ sterling equivalent, for each of the countries in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the European Economic Community and for Norway, Sweden and Finland, Austria and Switzerland.
§ Mr. BlakerThe most up to date information available for countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is as follows:
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Defence spending per head, 1981 Country £ United States 360 France 220 United Kingdom 217 Norway 199
Country £ Germany 187 Belgium 168 Netherlands 158 Denmark 138 Greece 117 Canada 104 Italy 75 Luxembourg 63 Portugal 41 Turkey 33 Note:
These figures are provisional and based on NATO definition of defence expenditure. They are expressed at average 1981 exchange rates. Defence spending for Iceland is negligible; Spain was not a member of NATO in 1981.
Comparable information is not available for non-NATO countries. For information concerning these countries I refer the hon. Member to the International Institute for Strategic Studies publication "The Military Balance 1981–82".