§ Mr. Nicholas Edwardsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing total public expenditure, including local government expenditure, on the nationalised industries and interest payments, as a percentage of gross domestic product in Great Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, the United States of America and Japan in each of the years 1950, 1960, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973.
§ Dr. GilbertThe information is given in the table below and is based on the latest information supplied to OECD by member countries. Figures including the expenditure of nationalised industries are not available. Estimates for 1973 are not yet available for countries other than the United Kingdom.