§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish a table breaking down the expenditure cuts announced on 22nd July into the following categories: current and capital expenditure, goods and services and transfer payments expenditure, expenditure by central Government, local government and the rest of the public sector and expenditure on wages and salaries and other public expenditure.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettI shall let the hon Member have a reply as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the estimates in Command Paper No. 6393 of the relative price effect in 1976–77 and 1977–78 still stand.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettI shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish an estimate of the demand effect of the measures of 22nd July in 1977–78, in the second half of 1977 and the first half of 1978.
§ Mr. Denzil DaviesI estimate that the effect of the measures of 22nd July on real gross domestic product will be between ½ and ¾ per cent. in the second half of 1977, and also in the financial year 1977–78 as a whole. No estimate has been made of the effect in the first half of 1978 since the expenditure decisions refer to the financial year 1977–78 only.
§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish a table 395W showing the public expenditure projected for each programme in 1977–78 in Command Paper No. 5519, revalued at 1976 survey prices.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettI shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish figures for the shortfall (a) in total public spending, and (b) in the capital expenditure of the nationalised industries, anticipated in successive public expenditure White Papers, for each financial year from 1969–70 to 1979–80 and, on the same price base, the amount of shortfall in each of those years to date.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettI shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he intends to announce the changes in expenditure by the NEB and the Scottish and Welsh Development Agencies referred to in his statement of 22nd July; and whether the changes will be increases in expenditure or changes in the scale or character of the expenditure carried out by those bodies.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettI shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish a table showing the total of public expenditure and expenditure on each programme projected for 1977–78 in Command Paper No. 5519, revalued at 1976 survey prices.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettI shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Nottasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will revalue the expenditure cuts announced on 22nd July to 1975 survey prices.
§ Mr. Joel BarnettI shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.