§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to the reply given to the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Mr. Price) [Official Report, 14th July 1975, columns 344–5], if he will publish a table showing Government expenditure on transfer incomes as a percentage of GDP for each year since 1949; and if he will show the main categories of transfer income comprised within this total.
§ Mr. Denzil DaviesThe figures in the following table show the main categories of public expenditure other than on goods and services. A further analysis, by service, of public expenditure is given in Table 51 of "National Income and Expenditure, 1963–1973" (the Blue Book), which will be updated in September of this year.
in the previous answer to the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Mr. Price). It is regretted that there were some errors in 285W that answer. The heading in Table 1 should have related to gross domestic product at factor cost, and the estimates of public expenditure on goods and services as a percentage of gross domestic product should have read:
1964 … … … … 27.7 1965 … … … … 28.3 1966 … … … … 29.5 1967 … … … … 31.5 1968 … … … … 30.9 1969 … … … … 30.1 1970 … … … … 30.8 1971 … … … … 30.9 1972 … … … … 30.4 1973 … … … … 30.5 1974 … … … … 33.1