Public Expenditure

HC Deb 21 July 1988 vol 137 cc710-1W

Sir Richard Body

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the percentage increases or decreases on expenditure since 1979 in real terms of each of the 17 programmes of public expenditure.

Mr. Major

The information requested can be derived from either table 5.8 (Planning total in real terms by Department, 1978–79 to 1990–91) or table 5.12 (Planning total in real terms by function, 1978–79 to 1990–91) in Volume I of "The Government's Expenditure Plans 1988–89 to 1990–91" (Cm. 288).