Social Services Expenditure

HC Deb 14 July 1970 vol 803 cc173-4W

Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in HANSARD details of the sterling expenditure on social services, &c., including the National Health Service, in 1963 and in 1969.

Mr. Maurice Macmillan

Figures for total public expenditure on social services and housing in the financial years 1963–64 and 1969–70, distinguishing current grants abroad, are given in Table A of the May 1970 issue of the Monthly Digest of Statistics. Those for calendar years up to 1968 may be derived from Table 50 of National Income and Expenditure 1969, while those for 1969 will be in the 1970 issue of this publication due to appear in September. Separate figures for the non-sterling content of social services expenditure are not available.