§ Mr. John Mooreasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1978 public expenditure defined as in Command Paper No. 7049 as a percentage of (a) gross domestic product at factor cost, (b) gross domestic product at market prices and (c) gross national product, giving estimated figures if final figures are not yet available.
(2) if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1978 public expenditure as defined in Command Paper No. 6721 as a percentage of (a) gross domestic product as factor cost, (b) gross domestic product at market prices, and (c) gross national product, giving estimated figures if final figures are not yet available.
(3) if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1978 public expenditure as defined before Command Paper No. 6721 as a percentage of (a) gross domestic product at factor cost, (b) gross domestic product at market prices and (c) gross national product, giving estimated figures if final figures are not yet available.
270W1977; the figure for 1978 is being compiled and will be included in the supplementary table on public sector debt to be published in "Financial Statistics" for February 1979.
Statistics of the numbers of families are available only for census years. Additional figures are therefore included in the table below for the debt per household, since estimates have been made of the number of households in other years.
§ Mr. Joel Barnett, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 6 February 1979], gave the following answer:
Figures of public expenditure in 1978 are not yet available. These will be published in the April edition of "Financial Statistics". Ratios of public expenditure to gross domestic product at market prices for 1978–79 has been published in table 3 of "The Government's Expenditure Plans 1979–80 to 1982–83", Cmnd 7439.