§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will arrange for the publication in the Official Report, "Economic Trends" or a Press release, of the National Accounts for 1960–74, using the classification of economic activities of Table 1.1 of, Public Expenditure to 1978–79, Command Paper No. 5879, or, if it is different, the classification and price base he intends to use in the next White Paper on Public Expenditure for the table comparable to Table 1.1 in Command Paper No. 5879, in order to promote an informed debate about the Government's plans for public expenditure to 1979–80.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettTable 1.1 of Cmnd. 5879 is not a conventional national accounts table. It takes the various components of public and private expenditure, with certain adjustments referred to in the footnotes to that table, and estimates their demand on resources. There are a number of problems in calculating an annual series for the past, and the data for compiling it back to 1960 on a basis fully consistent with the latest national accounts is not available.