HC Deb 19 November 1986 vol 105 c228W
Mr. Cohen

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide the Treasury's estimate of public spending totals for each quarter in (i) the current financial year and (ii) the next financial year.

Mr. MacGregor

The Government do not publish forward estimates for the public expenditure planning totals by quarter. Historical quarterly outturn data for the planning total are published by the Central Statistical Office, and the outturn in the first quarter of 1986–87 (the latest period for which such information is available) is £32,143 million.1 As indicated in the "Autumn Statement" (Cml 4), the estimated outturn for 1986–87 as a whole is £1404 billion, and the planning total for 1987–88 has now been set at £148.6 billion.

1Source: Table 2.4 of CSO Financial Statistics, October issue.