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Mr. Biggs-Davison
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the amount of public expenditure per head for Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
IDENTIFIABLE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PER HEAD* | ||||||||
Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales | England | |||||
£ | £ | £ | £ | |||||
1969–70 | … | … | … | … | 277 | 326 | 283 | 237 |
1970–71 | … | … | … | … | 329 | 349 | 303 | 263 |
1971–72 | … | … | … | … | 378 | 392 | 349 | 296 |
1972–73 | … | … | … | … | 444 | 446 | 385 | 335 |
1973–74† | … | … | … | … | 519 | 492 | 437 | 409 |
1974–75 | … | … | … | … | 763 | 662 | 582 | 545 |
* Excluding the capital expenditure of the nationalised industries but including Government grants and net lending to them, to reflect the new representation of public expenditure used in Cmnd. 6721. For comparability between countries, Northern Ireland electricity industry is treated as a nationalised industry, though this is not so in Cmnd. 6721. | ||||||||
† Figures for 1973–74 and earlier years exclude finance for the British Steel Corporation. |