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Public Expenditure

Volume 928: debated on Friday 18 March 1977

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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 IrelandScotlandWalesEngland
££££
1969–70277326283237
1970–71329349303263
1971–72378392349296
1972–73444446385335
1973–74†519492437409
1974–75763662582545
* 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.