§ Mr. Nicholas Bakerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the identifiable public expenditure per head for 1982–83 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
§ Mr. Peter ReesThe following table gives identifiable public expenditure per head in each country of the United
Identifiable Public Expenditure*† £ per head England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland United Kingdom 1978–79 881 1,116 1,005 1,409 923 1979–80 1,048 1,325 1,170 1,607 1,095 1980–81 1,262 1,599 1,441 1,909 1,320 1981–82 1,408 1,805 1,610 2,101 1,474 1982–83 1,539 1,990 1,726 2,335 1,612 * Excluding government net lending to nationalised industries and the market and overseas borrowing of nationalised industries a public corporations. † The extent to which expenditure can be identified may vary from year to year and between countries, particularly for services administered an England and Wales basis. The data are derived from the 1983 territorial analysis exercise which identified where possible the territorial breakdown of the planning total for the outturn years as estimated in September 1983; they update those printed in the Official Report on 1 February 1983, at columns 84 to 96.