§ Mr. Hordernasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing public expenditure on goods and 55W services as a proportion of GDP, and another table showing total public expenditure, including transfer payments, local authority expenditure, and nationalised industries, as a proportion of GDP each year for the last five years in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Japan, West Germany, France and Italy.
TABLE 1 General Government Expenditure on Goods and Services* as a proportion of GDP (market prices) 1970–1974 per cent. 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 United Kingdom … … 22.7 22.8 23.3 23.6 25.8 United States of America … … 23.3 22.7 22.4 21.8 .. Japan … … 13.2 14.4 15.1 14.9 15.6 West Germany … … 20.2 21.2 21.3 21.7 23.7 France … … 16.6 16.6 16.4 16.1 16.5 Italy … … 15.2 16.7 17.4 17.3 .. * Current expenditure on goods and services, gross domestic fixed capital formation and stock building.
TABLE 2 General Government Expenditure as a proportion of GDP (market prices) 1970–1974 per cent 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 United Kingdom … … 38.4 38.0 39.6 40.1 44.8 United States of America … … 33.7 33.7 33.5 32.9 .. Japan … … 19.2 20.6 21.8 21.5 23.8 West Germany … … 35.9 36.9 37.8 38.6 41.5 France … … 37.6 37.3 37.3 37.5 38.0 Italy … … 33.7 37.9 39.8 40.2 .. Source (Both Tables): National Accounts of OECD countries 1973 and 1974.