Gross Domestic Product Deflator

HC Deb 28 March 1983 vol 40 cc65-6W

Mr. Christopher Price

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the gross domestic product deflator for each year underlying table 1.14 of Cmnd. 8789-I.

Mr. Brittan

Table 1.14 in Cmnd. 8789-I was calculated from the cash plans using an index for the gross domestic product deflator as follows:

Year
1977–78	.5904
1978–79	.6526
1979–80	.7640
1980–81	.9035
1981–82	1.0000
1982–83	1.0750
1983–84	1.12875

A revised and extended version of this table taking account of Budget public expenditure measures and other changes and using the updated gross domestic product deflator assumptions set out in the Financial Statement and Budget Report was given in a reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Beaumont-Dark) on 17 March—[Vol. 39; c. 240.]