HC Deb 27 March 1990 vol 170 cc149-50W
Mr. Sillars

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list those years in the period 1974 to 1989 when financial cuts in real terms were made in public expenditure on Scottish education.

Mr. Lang

The years in the period 1974–75 to 1988–89 where the rate of increase in education expenditure was less than the rate of increase in the GDP deflator are as follows:

1975–76
1976–77
1977–78
1979–80
1982–83
1983–84
1985–86

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