HC Deb 15 December 1976 vol 922 cc749-50W
Mr. Critchley

asked the Secretary of State for Defence when he intends to increase the United Kingdom's contribution to the Nato infrastructure budget.

Mr. Mulley

As the communique issued at the end of the NATO Defence Planning Committee meeting on 7th-8th December makes clear, Ministers invited the Infrastructure Committee and the Permanent

IDENTIFIABLE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PER HEAD ON OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN 1975–76*
England Scotland Wales
£ £ £
Water services† 12 17 13
Local environmental services‡ 31 38 32
Other (Royal palaces and parks, historic buildings, environmental research, central administration). 2 2 2
Total§ 45 56 47
* Provisional.
† The figures for Water services are not comparable because of institutional differences between Scotland and England and Wales.
‡ Problems of comparability in the data for local environmental services, particularly arising from recent reorganization of local authorities functions in Scotland, do not permit a meaningful breakdown of these figures at this stage.
§ Service figures do not necessarily sum to national totals because each element is rounded separately.

Representatives to arrive at an agreement as soon as possible on the NATO military authorities' request for additional funding. We shall be playing our part in the necessary discussions.

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