asked the Prime Minister (1) if she will cause to be published in the Official Report a table showing for the last year for which figures are available the sums of money spent on (a) roads and road improvement, (b) sewerage, (c) new housing, housing repairs and house modernisation, (d) hospital and health service building works, (e) education building, (f) new works on airstrips, (g) harbours and repairs and (h) modernisation of such facilities.(2) if she will cause to be published in the
Official Report a table showing for the last year for which figures are available the sums spent on (a) roads and road improvement, (b) sewerage, (c) new houses, housing repairs and house modernisation, (d) hospital and health service building work, (e) education building, (f) new work on airstrips, (g) harbours and repairs and (h) modernisation of such facilities in Scotland.
[pursuant to her reply, 27 March 1985]: The information requested is set out in the following table, which should be read with its footnotes.
| Public Expenditure in Certain Categories,* 1983–84 (£ million) | ||
| Great Britain | Scotland | |
| (a) Roads and road improvements† | 2,762 | 365 |
| (b) Sewerage‡ | 288 | 54 |
| (c) New houses, housing repairs and house modernisation≑ | 6,081 | 921 |
| (d) Hospital and health service building work¶ | 650 | 90 |
| (e) Education building• | 633 | 82 |
| (f) New work on airfields▪ | 290 | 19 |
| (g) Harbours and repairs⋆ | 71 | 1 |
| Notes: | ||
| * The information in the table is consistent with that in the public expenditure White Paper (Cmnd. 9428). | ||
| † Includes structural maintenance and repair expenditure. | ||
| ‡ The amount spent on modernisation is estimated at £210 million of the total. | ||
| ≑ Comprises gross expenditure, capital and current: receipts from council house sales have not been deducted. | ||
| ¶ Represents health authorities' expenditure on hospitals and new building. Modernisation expenditure cannot be readily distinguished. | ||
| • Modernisation expenditure cannot be readily distinguished. | ||
| ▪ Includes both civilian and defence facilities. Figures on airstrips and modernisation cannot readily be distinguished. | ||
| ⋆ Excludes public corporations' maintenance and repairs expenditure. | ||