§ Mr. Cohenasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give for (a) the current year, (b) next year and (c) the average of the years 1970 to 1974; (i) the ratio of public spending to national output, (ii) public spending, (iii) national output, (iv) spending on unemployment benefit, (v) spending on social security benefit, (vi) spending to meet interest charges, (vii) spending on investment in the nationalised industries, (viii) spending on the National Health Service and (ix) spending on local government services.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe available figures are as follows:
Departments and agencies relate to the information officer group only. The numbers employed at 1 April of each year were as follows:
Senior Information Officer and lower grades Principal Information Officer Chief Information Officer 1979 1,095 131 66 1980 1,083 128 63 1981 1,022 130 64 1982 980 111 62 1983 928 111 62 1984 892 111 n/a 1985 883 111 n/a 1986 833 n/a n/a Note n/a—not available; chief and principal information officer grades were incorporated into the open structure on 1 January 1984 and 1 January 1986 respectively.