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Mr. Gareth Wardell
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list those local authorities in Wales which have installed at polling stations portable ramps for the disabled, half the cost of which was met by Her Majesty's Government.
Mr. Peter Rees
No instance has been found in the records held by the Treasury of election claims from acting returning officers for the 1979 general and European elections and, in terms of the claims so far received, the 1983 general and the 1984 European elections, of any local authority in Wales installing at polling stations portable ramps for the disabled, for which half the cost has been met by Her Majesty's Government.
| 1979–80 | 1980–81 | 1981–82 | 1982–83 | 1983–84 | |
| (a) Public expenditure | 117 | 141 | 159 | 173 | 183 |
| (b) Retail Price Index | 116 | 135 | 150 | 161 | 168 |
| (c) Index of Industrial Production | 103 | 94 | 93 | 95 | 98 |
| (d) Wages, salaries and income from employment | 118 | 135 | 145 | 155 | 167 |
| (e) Expenditure on social security benefits | 118 | 142 | 175 | 198 | 208 |
| (f) Revenue from income tax | 110 | 130 | 153 | 163 | 167 |
| (g) Revenue from national insurance contributions | 116 | 139 | 156 | 181 | 203 |