HL Deb 16 March 2000 vol 610 c227WA
Lord Barnett

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will provide figures showing how their commitment to revise expenditure in Scotland under the "Barnett Formula" to take account of population changes on an annual basis has been met. [HL1474]

Lord McIntosh of Haringey

The arrangements for funding the Scottish Parliament, including the application of population changes, are described in the Statement of Funding Policy published by the Treasury on 31 March 1999. This set out the population estimates for Scotland for 1996 and 1997. The estimates for 1998, which will be used in the 2000 Spending Review, are 10.34 per cent for the Scotland population as a proportion of England and 9.77 per cent as a proportion of England and Wales.