§ Mr. Knoxasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the budget surplus or deficit on a per capita and on a per family basis for each year since 1945.
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§ Mr. Joel BarnettThe information is given in the following table. Budget surplus or deficit has been taken to refer to the public sector borrowing requirement, figures for which are not available for years before 1952.
PUBLIC SECTOR BORROWING REQUIREMENT per head per household £ £ 1952 15 1953 12 1954 7 1955 9 1956 11 1957 9 1958 9 1959 11 1960 14 1961 13 42 1962 10 1963 16 1964 18 1965 22 1966 18 55 1967 34 1968 23 1969 −8 1970 — 1971 25 74 1972 37 1973 75 1974 113 The PSBR per head is obtained using mid-year estimates of total population.
The PSBR per household is derived using estimates of the number of households as defined in the Census of Population and relating to census dates. Estimates of the number of households are not available for inter-censal years.