§ 67. Mr. Michael McNair-Wilsonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a table showing levels and the percentage changes in public expenditure on housing, education, health and welfare and social security between 1959–60 and 1964–65, and between 1964–65 and 1969–70, excluding selective employment tax payments and the clawback on family allowances and adjusted for a constant level of unemployment, on any convenient consistent constant price basis, deflating current transfers where necessary by a measure of the decline in the purchasing power of money.
§ Mr. Diamond:As I explained in reply to the hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. Kenneth Lewis) on 25th March, there are technical difficulties involved in converting into constant prices the expenditure on individual programmes for financial years before 1964–65; but progress has been made in overcoming these difficulties. The figures, together with those for the years after 1964–65, will be sent to the hon. Member as soon as they are available.—[Vol. 798, c. 439–440.]
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§ 81. Mr. Cordleasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a table showing public expenditure as analysed in Table 1.4 on page 16 of Command Paper No. 4234 for the years 1970–71 to 1973–74, and what his Department estimates will be the expenditure at current or outturn prices.
§ Mr. Diamond:No information at constant prices later than that given in Table 1.4 and Table 1.6 of Cmnd. 4234 or at current or outturn prices, is available in this form.
§ 82. Mr. Cordleasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a table showing public expenditure as analysed in Table 1.4 on page 16 of Command Paper No. 4234 at constant 1963 prices, for each financial year from 1959–60 to 1969–70 and as estimated for the years 1970–71 to 1973–74.
§ Mr. Diamond:This information is not available at 1963 prices.