§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for each year since 1979, what the total sum was, in real terms, of public expenditure spent by the(a) Scottish Office, (b) Scotland Office and (c) Scottish Executive that was negotiated externally from the block grant and Barnett formula; and what was for each year (i) the single largest item of such expenditure and (ii) the total amount of such expenditure. [10126]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithThis information is not readily available. Moreover, coverage of the block grant arrangements has changed over the period since 1979, which makes comparisons over this period difficult. However, information on Scottish public expenditure back to 1995–96 was published in Chapter 8 of Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses in April 2001. Information for earlier years was published in previous editions of Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses.