Public Expenditure

HC Deb 15 October 1990 vol 177 cc709-10W

Sir Richard Body

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state in percentage terms the increase or decrease in expenditure since 1979 of each of the 17 programmes of public expenditure.

Mr. Norman Lamont

The information requested can be derived from table 21.2.10—General Government expenditure by function, 1978–79 to 1989–90—in chapter 21 of "The Government's Expenditure Plans 1990–91 to 1992–93", Cm. 1021.