§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table in the Official Report showing 419W identifiable public expenditure per capita at outturn prices in Wales analysed into each of the major sectors for each year since 1965–66.
§ Mr. John MorrisThe information is give up to the latest year available in the following table.Per capita estimates are derived from that part of total expenditure which can be identified as relating to establishments, projects or assets physically located in Wales. All elements
IDENTIFIABLE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE IN WALES—PER CAPITA 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 Agriculture, fisheries, forestry 7.3 7.7 8.9 8.9 9.3 11.0 12.3 11.8 11.6 Trade, industry and employment 33.0 43.7 59.6 66.2 59.7 53.2 56.2 56.3 53.6 of which nationalised industries capital expenditure* 32.9 42.5 43.4 35.8 32.8 23.4 27.1 31.3 21.2 Roads and transport 10.9 12.4 13.7 14.1 16.4 18.1 23.3 26.4 27.8 Housing 15.3 17.4 15.0 16.0 14.8 16.7 19.5 19.2 31.0 Other environmental services 10.5 12.5 12.2 15.3 17.3 18.9 20.8 25.6 29.9 Education, libraries, science and arts 33.8 35.5 38.4 42.8 47.4 53.7 62.2 72.3 80.3 Health and personal social services 27.4 29.4 32.4 34.8 38.1 43.9 48.8 56.2 64.2 Social security ..† ..† ..† 71.7 76.2 81.6 93.5 102.9 113.0 Law, order and protective services 5.8 6.4 7.1 7.7 8.6 8.9 10.6 12.6 14.5 Other public and common services 3.7 4.3 4.7 6.2 6.7 9.9 11.S 17.6 15.6 TOTAL 147.7 169.3 192.0 283.7 294.5 315.9 359.0 400.9 441.5 * This category does not include expenditure by the steel industry. † Not available.