Education and Unemployment Benefit Expenditure

HC Deb 13 March 1997 vol 292 c320W

Mr. Matthew Banks

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the estimated outturn general government expenditure on(a) education and (b) unemployment benefits for 1995–96. [17438]

Mrs. Angela Knight

The estimated outturn for general government expenditure in 1995–96 on(a) education is £35.9 billion and (b) unemployment benefit is £1.1 billion.

These are the most recently published figures for these parts of general government expenditure and have been taken from "Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 1996–97", published in March 1996. Revised figures will be available in PESA 1997–98, which is due to be published shortly.