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Sir G. Sinclair
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a break-down of the components of the £1,000 social wage to which he referred in his Budget speech.
Mr. Joel Barnett
The components of the social wage in 1974–75. as broadly estimated in the Budget speech, were:
| £ | |
| Social security | 270 |
| Education, libraries science and arts | 210 |
| Health and personal social services | 180 |
| Housing | 160 |
| Other environmental services | 70 |
| Law, order and other protective services | 50 |
| Certain subsidies in other programmes* | 60 |
| £1000 |
* Food, nationalised industries' price restraint, and the main transport subsidies.