Expenditure Plans (Hansard, 20 April 1998)

§ Mr. Swinney

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give a breakdown of his expenditure plans for each year from 1994–95 to 1999–2000 in cash and real terms at 1997–98 prices, indicating changes announced since the publication of Serving Scotland's Needs, setting out the cumulative spending planned for 1998–99 to 1999–2000 under each item in real terms and the total cumulative spending assuming that spending is

The Scottish Office public expenditure plans
£ million, cash
	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1997–98	1998–99
	Outturn	Outturn	Outturn	Estimated outturn	Plans	Changes from Serving Scotland"s Needs 1997	Changes from Serving Scotland"s Needs 1997
Central government expenditure (including public corporations other than nationalised industries)
Agriculture, fisheries and food	456	521	600	541	517	-24	-22
Industry, enterprise and training	598	599	595	578	585	-13	1
Roads and transport¹	338	299	215	291	281	115	87
Housing	344	183	188	346	300	67	17
Scottish Homes loan repayments	-	-	-	-139	-48	11	22
Other environmental services	59	64	350	338	328	13	7
Law, order and protective services³	429	428	450	476	460	-3	-16
Education and sport²	1,211	1,250	1,293	1,281	1,187	61	-60
Arts and libraries	76	75	79	85	77	5	1
Health	3,948	4,092	4,240	4,394	4,626	18	151
Social work services	44	48	63	66	66	5	5
Other public services³	167	172	176	154	161	-4	5
Total central government expenditure (including public corporations)	7,670	7,731	8,249	8,411	8,540	943	737
Local authority capital expenditure	912	996	529	496	549	-73	-5
of which:
Housing (HRA)	182	291	177	178	180	-2	0
Police	8	14	18	19	18	-1	-2
Fire	9	10	18	16	16	0	0
Provision to match receipts from European Social Fund and European Regional Development Fund	114	121	136	227	123	67	-56
Central government support to local authorities current expenditure¹	5,322	5,423	5,433	5,298	5,285	-63	11
Nationalised Industries' financing limits	-27	-22	18	26	26	4	9
Non-control total expenditure	-	-	-	22	74	22	74
of which:
New Deal for Schools	-	-	-	9	27	9	27
Housing capital receipts initiative	-	-	-	12	44	12	44
Childcare	-	-	-	-	3	0	3
Further education colleges	-	-	-	1	-	1	0
Total expenditure within the Secretary of State's responsibility	13,990	14,294	14,366	14,482	14,597	208	231
of which:
the Scottish Block	13,560	13,750	13,748	13,893	13,979	205	169
¹ Roads and Transport figures in this table include Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive (SPTE) which previously were included in central government support to local authorities current, except in 1996–97 where it is still included in the local authorities current line.
² Switch of resources in the 2 years shown is due to change in profile of the sale of student loan book.
³From 1998–99 departments will take on responsibility from Property Repayment Services (PRS) for buildings which the government owns and occupies. The change from paying rents to paying capital charges has resulted in a reduction in planned expenditure for 1998–99 of around £10 million on both the Law, Order and Protective Services and the other public service programmes, relating to the Scottish Courts estate and The Scottish Office estate respectively.

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maintained at 1997–98 real term levels; and if he will indicate the difference between the two cumulative totals. [36098]

§ Mr. Dewar

[holding answer 26 March 1998]The information for each year from 1994–95 to 1998–99 is set out in the tables which are based on information published in my Departmental Report "Serving Scotland's Needs" (Cm3914) on 9 April 1998. No plans for 1999-2000 are given as these are subject to the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review. As a result, the cumulative spending totals and comparison requested cannot be shown.

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The Scottish Office public expenditure plans
£ million, 1997–98 prices
	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1997–98	1998–99
Outturn	Outturn	Outturn	Outturn	Estimated outturn	Plans	Changes from Serving Scotland"s Needs 1997	Changes from Serving Scotland"s Needs 1997
Central government expenditure (including public corporations other than nationalised industries)
Agriculture, fisheries and food	495	551	616	541	502	-24	-21
Industry, enterprise and training	650	633	611	578	569	-13	1
Roads and transport	367	316	221	291	273	115	85
Housing	374	193	193	346	292	67	17
Scottish Homes loan repayments	-	-	-	-139	-47	11	21
Other environmental services	64	68	359	338	319	13	7
Law, order and protective services	466	452	462	476	447	-3	-16
Education and sport	1,316	1,321	1,328	1,281	1,154	61	-58
Arts and libraries	83	79	81	85	75	5	1
Health	4,289	4,326	4,354	4,394	4,496	18	147
Social Work services	48	51	65	66	64	5	5
Other public services	181	182	181	154	156	-4	5
Total central government expenditure (including) public corporations)	8,333	8,172	8,472	8,411	8,299	943	716
Local authority capital expenditure	991	1,053	543	496	534	-73	-5
of which:
Housing (HRA)	198	308	182	178	175	-2	0
Police	9	15	18	19	17	-1	-2
Fire	10	11	18	16	16	0	0
Provision to match receipts from European Social Fund and European Regional Development Fund	124	128	140	227	120	67	-54
Central government support to local authorities current expenditure	5,782	5,733	5,580	5,298	5,136	-63	11
Nationalised Industries' financing limits	-29	-23	18	26	25	4	9
Non-control total expenditure from Windfall Tax	-	-	-	22	72	22	72
New Deal for Schools	-	-	-	9	26	9	26
Housing capital receipts initiative	-	-	-	12	43	12	43
Childcare	-	-	-	-	3	0	3
Further education colleges	-	-	-	1	-	0
Total expenditure within the Secretary of State's responsibility	15,199	15,062	14,754	14,482	14,186	208	224
of which:
the Scottish Block	14,732	14,535	14,119	13,893	13,585	205	164

Note:

Real terms figures are based on the latest GDP deflators, reworked to a 1997–98 base