Secret Services (Expenditure)

HC Deb 05 December 1988 vol 143 c52W

Mr. Allen

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the expenditure on the secret services vote for each previous year for which figures are available taking 1988–89 as 100.

Mr. Norman Lamont

Outturn figures are published in the annual appropriation accounts. The figures for the secret service vote for the last five years in the form requested are:

	£million
1983–84	62.4
1984–85	66.3
1985–86	71.4
1986–87	81.1
1987–88	91.7

Note: Based on 1988–89 Estimates provision of £113.2 million = 100.

Mr. Allen

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer under which headings other than class XX vote 3 Cabinet Office: Secret Services, expenditure on the secret services is accounted for.

Mr. Norman Lamont

In the interests of national security, successive Governments have declined to publish the information requested.