§ Mr. Malcolm MacMillanasked the Secretary of State for Defence what was the estimated total expenditure on naval construction and other defence orders in Scotland in each of the last three years; and what relationship the amount in each of those years bore to the Scottish proportion of the United Kingdom population.
§ Mr. John MorrisExpenditure on naval construction and other defence orders, in Scotland, for the last three financial years was:—
1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 £m £m. £m. Naval new construction 12.6 0.1 17.2 Other orders 50.1 47.5 39.8 Total 62.7 47.6 57.0 As a percentage of total expenditure on defence orders in the United Kingdom as a whole, the total expenditure in Scotland represented 6.1 per cent. in 1966–67, 4.9 per cent. in 1967–68 and 5.8 per cent. in 1968–69. The naval new construction in Scotland as a percentage of such orders in the United Kingdom as a whole represented 19.7 per cent. in 1966–67, 0.3 per cent. in 1967–68 and 64.2 per cent. in 1968–69.
Over the same period the population of Scotland expressed as a percentage of the total population of the United Kingdom was approximately 9.4 per cent.