§ Mr. DewarTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing(a) the population figures used for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 521W for the per capita calculations in his answer to the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Summerson) on identifiable public expenditure of 13 December, Official Report, columns 457–58, citing data sources and (b) the population figures used for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions for the per capita calculations in the Treasury's note on public expenditure by territory and region in HC 41 of 1990–91, pp. 41–46, citing data sources.
Table 1: Population Data1 for 1990 Territorial Analysis Thousands England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland 1985–86 47,111.7 5,136.5 2,811.8 1,557.8 1986–87 47,254.5 5,121.0 2,821.0 21,566.8 1987–88 47,406.7 5,112.1 2,836.2 1,575.1 1988–89 47,536.3 5,094.0 2,857.0 1,578.1 1989–90 47,689.4 5,090.7 2,873.1 1,583.0 1 The data are mid-year population estimates produced by the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys. They are consistent with the figures published in Table 2 of Population Trends 62 (Winter 1990) 2 During the course of the preparation of this reply a minor error has come to light in the figure used (1,556.8) to produce the per capita figures for Northern Ireland for 1986–87. The effect of this is to overstate total Northern Ireland per capita expenditure in that year by £19 (0.6 per cent.)
Table 2: Population Data1 for Analysis of Regional Expenditure in England Thousands 1987–88 Northern Region 3,076.8 Yorks and Humberside 4,900.2 East Midlands 3,942.3 East Anglia 2,013.7 South East 17,317.6 South West 4,588.4 West Midlands 5,197.7 North West 6,370.1 England 47,406.7 1 The data are mid-year population estimates produced by the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys. They are consistent with the figures published in Table 3 of Population Trends 62 (Winter 1990)