To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will bring up to date the information on the growth of pension and other funds given in his answer of 7 March 1984, Official Report, column 581.
The latest annual estimates for the period 1982 to 1990, the latest year for which a figure is available, are given below. Updated figures for earlier periods are available on the CSO database, series AALV, which can be accessed through the House of Commons Library.
| Life Assurance and Pensions Schemes Net increase in amount available for investment | |
| £ million | |
| 1982 | 14,980 |
| 1983 | 15,938 |
| 1984 | 18,518 |
| 1985 | 19,538 |
| 1986 | 20,510 |
| 1987 | 20,840 |
| 1988 | 22,659 |
| 1989 | 30,505 |
| 1990 | 33,655 |
industrial development, (c) energy, (d) infrastructure, (e) environmental protection, (f) health, (g) social development and services, (h) earth and atmosphere, (i) advancement of knowledge, (j) civil space, (k) defence and (l) not elsewhere classified.
The available information on general government expenditure by main function since 1978–79 is given, in cash and real terms, in tables 2·2 and 2·3 of the statistical supplement to the 1991 Autumn Statement (Cm. 1920). Corresponding information for the other areas of expenditure requested is not available or could be provided only at disproportionate cost.