§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a table indicating the regional breakdown of defence procurement expenditure for each year from 1974, in percentage terms.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding reply 23 January 1989]: The estimates given taken from our computer records, which include for each contract let a single "location of work" code which represents the place at which we expect most of the work to be carried out by the main contractor. These figures do not take account of the different location of subcontractors or of supplies to the main contracts. The latest estimates of regional distribution of the Ministry's United Kingdom equipment expenditure from 1983–84 onwards are as follows:
Percentages Standard Region 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 North 5 6 6 8 Yorkshire and Humberside 1 2 3 3 East Midlands 5 4 4½ 3 East Anglia 3 3 1½ 3 South East 49 SO 47½ 49 South West 14 11 14½ 13 West Midlands 4 3 3½ 4 North West 12 12 10 9 Scotland 5 6 6 5 Wales 1 2 2 2 Northern Ireland 1 1 1½ 1 Notes:
- 1. Estimates of expenditure on equipment are available by region only from 1983–84.
- 2. The estimates for 1985–86 and later years are more reliable because of a change in methodology.
- 3. The figures for 1986–87 may be subject to minor revision for publication in "Statement on the Defence Estimates (Vol. 2), 1989".