To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing the share of total public spending taken up by housing spending (a) in Great Britain and (b) in England, in each of the years from 1974 to 1987.

The table shows, for Great Britain and England, identifiable public expenditure on the housing function as a percentage of total identifiable public expenditure:

Percentages
	Great Britain	England
1982–83	4·0	3·7
1983–84	4·4	4·1
1984–85	4·1	4·0
1985–86	3·4	3·3
1986–87	3·0	2·8

The term "identifiable expenditure" refers to expenditure that can be indentified from official records as having been incurred in a particular territory. Total identifiable expenditure accounts for just over 80 per cent. of total public departmental expenditure: it excludes expenditure on defence, overseas aid and other overseas services which are deemed to have been incurred on behalf of the United Kingdom as a whole. It also excludes Government net landing to, and the market and overseas borrowing of, the public corporations (including nationalised industries), due to the difficulty of allocating this finance to expenditure in a particular country.

Planning total by department and spending authority plans for 1982–83
£ million
	Central government			Local authorities	Public corporations		Planning total
	Voted in Estimates		Other		Voted in Estimates	Other	Voted in Estimates	Other	Total
	Cash limited	Other
Departments
Defence	14,395	—	-4	—	6	-33	14,401	-37	14,364
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	1,360	106	44	—	34	-54	1,501	-10	1,490
European Communities	-111	-985	1,685	—	—	—	-1096	1,685	589
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	334	1,207	-4	213	50	-2	1,591	207	1,798
Trade and Industry	398	1,720	-350	62	892	-551	3,009	-840	2,169
Energy	315	84	-4	—	700	-193	1,099	-197	902
Employment	1,470	341	491	85	12	-2	1,823	575	2,398
Transport	923	150	-6	2,379	887	6	1,960	2,379	4,338
DOE—Housing	29	1,086	327	1,143	117	8	1,233	1,478	2,711
DOE—Other environmental services	226	6	—	2,952	109	257	340	3,208	3,549