§ Mr. Thorntonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will give, for each of the last 10 years, for England and Wales, figures of public expenditure in terms of (a) total capital expenditure, (b) central Government capital expenditure and (c) local government capital expenditure showing in each case, on a comparable price basis, the target figure as set in the public expenditure White Paper published before the beginning of the year and the outturn of expenditure for the year;
(2) if he will give, for each of the last 10 years, for England and Wales, figures of public expenditure in terms of (a) total current expenditure; (b) central Government current expenditure and (c) local government current
48W expenditure showing in each case, on a comparable price basis, the target figure as set out in the public expenditure White Paper published before the beginning of the year and the outturn of expenditure for the year.
Income Tax due for 1978舑79 Mid-1978 Home Popultion Estimates Income Tax per head of population £million thousands £ England *17,400 46,349 375 Metropolitan counties and GLC 7,051 21,076 335 Non-metropolitan counties 9,960 25,374 394 Northern 989 3,099 319 Metropolitan counties (Tyne &Wear) 323 1,165 277 Non-metropolitan counties 666 1,934 345 Yorkshire & Humberside 1,680 4,878 344 Metropolitan counties (S. Yorks, W. Yorks) 1,180 3,372 349 Non-metropolitan counties 502 1,506 334 North West 1,990 6,498 306 Metropolitan counties (Gt.Manchester Merseyside) 1,230 4,209 292 Non-metropolitan counties 762 2,289 333 East Midlands (Non-metropolitan) 1,180 3,750 313 West Midlands 1,860 5,154 361 Metropolitan counties (West Midlands) 977 2,712 360
§ Mr. Brittan:An analysis of outturn compared with planned public expenditure in 1979-80 was published as treasury working paper (TWP) number 16. Similar analyses for 1977–78 and 1978–79 were published as TWP 11 and TWP 13 respectively. Copies of these papers have been placed in the Library of the House. I refer my hon. Friend to table 3 on page 18 of TWP 16 which shows percentage excess or shortfall on plans in volume terms by economic category and spending authority for each year 1972–73 to 1979–80. A similar table was included in both TWP 11 and TWP 13 but the starting date for each is only 1972–73 because it would have been both technically difficult and rather expensive to cover earlier years. Separate analyses for England and for Wales are not available because many services are planned for the United Kingdom as a whole. However, a new functional programme for all expenditure under the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Wales was introduced in the last Public Expenditure White Paper (Cmnd. 8175). A comparison of plan and outturn for this programme is shown on page 13 of TWP number 16. Such an analysis is not available for earlier years because of the expense of its production. Figures for 1980–1981 are not available.