Autumn Statement (Hansard, 26 January 1993)

§ Mr. Davidson

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will publish expanded versions of tables 2B.2, 2B.3 and 2B.4 of his "Autumn Statement 1992", Cm. 2096, which (i) subdivide technical adjustments into(a) transfers of function, (b) changes of financing responsibility, (c) classification changes reflecting changes in the way public expenditure is measures, (d) other technical changes and (e) cyclical social security; (ii) subdivide other changes into (a) revised estimates of the costs of existing policies, (b) expenditure changes resulting from policy changes and (c) other and (iii) provide technical notes as to which of these categories of adjustment have occasioned restatements of outturn-year figures in Cm. 2096;

(2) if he will publish (a) an analysis of the factors underlying the trend in table 2B.1 of his "Autumn Statement", Cm. 2096, of the net effects of the changes from charging all accruing superannuation costs to civil and defence departmental budgets over the period 1987–88 to 1994–95 and (b) an analysis by departmental programme of accrued pension liabilities at 31 March 1993; and for what reasons it is judged appropriate to take the differences between payments and accruals outside the new control total;

(3) if he will publish an analysis comparable to that in table B1 of Cm. 1920, of the accounting adjustments shown for the years 1987–88 to 1995–96 in table 2A.3 of his "Autumn Statement 1992", Cm. 2096, to show which components have been unaffected by the switch from the planning total to the new control total and which are a direct consequence of that switch;

(4) if he will publish in the statistical supplement to the 1992 "Autumn Statement" planning figures for total local authority expenditure in 1993–94, 1994–95 and 1995–96 by territory and economic category, in the format of table 5.7 of Cm. 1920, and by function, in the format of table 5.8 of Cm. 1920;

(5) if he will publish a table, consistent with table 2A.11 of his 1992 "Autumn Statement", Cm. 2096, showing (a) local authority debt interest and (b) total local authority expenditure, for the planning years 1993–94, 1994–95 and 1995–96;

(6) if he will publish an analysis of the effects of transfers of function between spending sectors, changes of 618W financing responsibility between sectors, classification changes, estimating changes and policy changes on the 1992–93, 1993–94 and 1994–95 figures for (i) central Government support for local authorities and (ii) total local authority expenditure, as given in table 2.6 of his "Autumn Statement 1992", Cm. 2096;

(7) if he will publish a reconciliation between the figures given by table 2B.1 of his "Autumn Statement 1992", Cm 2096, for classification changes in 1992–93, 1993–94 and 1994–95 and those given by each of tables 2B.2, 2B.3 and 2B.4;

(8) if he will publish (a) a compositional analysis in the form of table 2A.3 of Cm 2096 of the figures provided by table 2A.1 for the new control total in 1984–85 to 1986–87, (b) a compositional analysis in the form of table 1A.3 of Cm 1729 of the figures provided by table 2A.1 for the new planning total, that is, after 1990 redefinition, in 1984–85 to 1993–94, and (c) totals for the old planning total, that is, pre-1990 redefinition, for whichever of the years 1963–64 to 1995–96 such data can be provided on the comparable public expenditure measurement basis as table 2A.1 of Cm 2096;

(9) if he will publish (a) the series of money GDP published in rounded form in table 2A.1 of his "Autumn Statement 1992", Cm 2096, (b) the adjusted money GDP figures which underly the calculated adjusted series, index (1990–91 = 100) in table 2A.1 and (c) the detailed adjustments to money GDP which constitute the difference between the two series, for the years 1963–64 to 1995–96, to the nearest pounds million; and how future such tables will be affected by the replacement of the community charge by the council tax on 1 April 1993.