§ Pete WishartTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the comparability percentages for each Government Department, used in each spending review from 1979. [38766]
§ Mr. Andrew Smith[holding answer 28 February 2002]: Details of comparability factors were published for the first time by the Treasury in the first Statement of Funding Policy in March 1999. This was updated in July 2000 reflecting the 2000 spending review. Information on the changing composition of the blocks since 1978 was published in the report of the Treasury Committee on the Barnett formula published in December 1997.