§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing public expenditure by main programme in real terms for each year from 1975 onwards, taking 1975 as the base year at 100.
§ Mr. Peter ReesThe figures in cost terms—that is, cash adjusted for the effects of general inflation as measured by the gross domestic product deflator — 1975–76= 100, are shown in the following table.
For 1983.84 and 1984.85, public expenditure planning totals in cost terms were given in table 2.2 of the autumn statement. Main programme breakdowns for these years are not yet available.
§ Mr. HayhoeIn 1982 net receipts of excise duly on cigarettes were £3,150 million.
It is not possible to compare this in real terms with 1973 because duty was then charged on the tobacco leaf used in the manufacture of hand-rolling tobacco, pipe tobacco 633W and cigars, as well as of cigarettes. Moreover, the tobacco duty rate was reduced on 1 April 1973, when VAT was introduced.
However, in the financial year 1982–83 the real value of net receipts of tobacco products duty—nine-tenths of it being from cigarettes—was 5.5 per cent less than the total receipts from tobacco duty in 1973–74.