§ Mr. Croninasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the proportion deducted from estimated expenditure on hotel and restaurant services in respect of business expenditure in order to arrive at the other services item of the National Income and Expenditure Blue Books table on consumers' expenditure; and what sum was deducted for 1958.
§ Sir E. BoyleTwenty per cent., equivalent in 1958 to£50 million. As pointed out on page 134 of "Nationalised Income Statistics: Sources and Methods", however, this adjustment is only one step in a calculation based on rough and incomplete figures, and it is therefore subject to a wide margin of error.
§ Mr. Croninasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the 2 per cent. allowance for business expenditure on beer, as mentioned on page 111 in the National Income Statistics, Sources and 14W Methods, has now been changed; and the figure for the new allowance.
§ Sir E. BoyleNo change has been made in this allowance.
§ Mr. Croninasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the 5 per cent. allowance for business expenditure on food, referred to on page 106 of the National Income Statistics, Sources and Methods being made to the other personal expenditure item of consumers' expenditure on food, has been subsequently changed; and if he will give the figure for the new allowance, and the figure for the last five years.
§ Sir E. BoyleNo change has been made in this allowance, but I would point out that it is applied in the calculation of only part of the item shown as "other personal expenditure on food".