§ Mr. LoveTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of gross domestic product central Government spent on(a) education, (b) health, (c) housing and (d) social housing (A) in each year since 1979 and (B) as projected to the end of the current spending review period. [159690]
§ Mr. Andrew Smith[holding answer 30 April 2001]: The information requested is available in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) 2001–02 (Cm5101), tables 3.4 and 3.5. Some series are only published in cash terms, a long run series for money GDP is available from the ONS.
Expenditure is planned on a departmental basis, not a functional basis, and spending plans for expenditure on health, housing, and on social housing are not available on a consistent basis. Forward projections for education spending in cash terms are published in PESA 2001–02 table 1.2.
A consistent long run functional series for central Government expenditure is not currently available—the references are based on total expenditure.