§ Mr. Critchleyasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the defence budget figures at 1982–83 constant costing prices for the volume of the outturn in terms of underspend or overspend as compared with the original estimates.
§ Mr. WigginThe following table gives the difference, in forecast average 1982–83 prices, between the "volume" of the original Estimates provision and the "volume" of final outturn of the defence budget each year since 1964–65:
Year £m 1982–83 Prices 1964–65 -1003 1965–66 -1154 1966–67 -516 1967–68 -242 1968–69 -670 1969–70 -762 1970–71 +39 1971–72 +457 1972–73 -17 1973–74 -949 1974–75 -408 1975–76 -144 1976–77 -440 1977–78 -301 1978–79 -301 1979–80 -316 1980–81 -89 1981–82 -84 Note: Before the change to public expenditure planning in cash, volume was the term conventionally used to describe inputs to expenditure programmes expressed on the price basis of the relevant public expenditure survey.