§ Rear-Admiral Morgan-Gilesasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a table showing actual expenditure, including Supplementary Estimates, at current prices, on the Defence Budget for each financial year from 1956–57 up to date.
§ Mr. HealeyI would refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) on 5th July, 1968. The figure then quoted for 1967–68 as a forecast out-turn is now an actual out-turn of £2,236 million. There is no actual out-turn yet available for 1968–69 but the provisional figure is £2,247 million.—[Vol. 767, c.279.]
§ Rear-Admiral Morgan-Gilesasked the Secretary of State for Defence what is the estimated expenditure on defence outside the Defence Budget in 1968–69 and 1969–70: and what percentage of the 147W gross national product these figures present.
§ Mr. HealeyIf the hon. Member is referring to "Other Military Defence" expenditure as defined for the national income accounts statistics, the figures are, a provisional out-turn of £153 million for 1968–69 and an estimate of 125 million for 1969–70. These amounts represent, as a proportion of gross national product at factor cost, just over and just under one-third of 1 per cent., respectively.
I would, however, draw the attention of the hon. Member to replies which I gave on 17th February, and 19th February which place these figures in context.—[Vol. 778, c. 38–40; Vol. 778, c. 97–98.]