Scottish Development Agency

HC Deb 08 December 1987 vol 124 c109W

Mr. Gordon Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list at 1987 prices the real value of Government expenditure on the Scottish Development Agency for each year from 1979.

Mr. Lang

[holding answer 26 October 1987]: The information, at 1987–88 prices, is set out in the table:

Financial year	£ million
1978–79	107.3
1979–80	112.6
1980–81	117.0
1981–82	101.6
1982–83	125.5
1983–84	105.2
1984–85	90.0
1985–86	101.6
1986–87	93.0
1987–881	94.9
1 Provision.

As Government expenditure on the SDA is expressed in net terms the figures are not illustrative of total agency expenditure resources over the years. This also partly explains the variations between years.