To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table analysing the data in appendix 1 of Cm 1916, showing separately for each line for the years 1986–87 to 1994–95, (a) expenditure within the Welsh block and (b) other expenditure.

The Welsh block comprises all Welsh Office programmes apart from agriculture, industry and nationalised industries. With the exception of local authority unhypothecated current grants and credit approvals, expenditure is identified on a programme basis in appendix 1 of Cm 1916. The unhypothecated current grants cannot be allocated to specific programmes. The breakdown of credit approvals between block and other programmes is as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the latest figures available, stating whether they are final outturns, provisional outturns or budget figures, for 1988–89 to 1991–92 on the statistical basis of table 1.1 (summary of revenue expenditure and income), table 1.2 (summary of capital expenditure and income), table 1.3 (revenue accounts outturn summary), table 1.4 (capital accounts outturn summary) and table 2.3 (revenue account summary) of Welsh local government financial statistics.

The tables to which the hon. Gentleman refers are based on final outturn information received from local authorities. Outturn figures for 1988–89 and 1989–90 have already been published in Welsh Local Government Financial Statistics volume 14 1990 and volume 15 1991 for these years respectively. Outturn figures for later years are not yet available. Provisional or budget based figures are not available centrally at this level of detail for all accounts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a reconciliation between (a) the local authority expenditure and its financing figures contained in figures 1.03 and 1.04 and appendices 1 and 3 of Cm 1916 and (b) the figures announced in the latest revenue support grant and other settlements.

Within the aggregate external finance package of £2,352 million for 1992–93 the revenue support grant—RSG—element is £1,621 million, the distributable amount from the non-domestic rating—NDR—account is £536 million and the allocation for revenue specific grants is £195 million.The Welsh revenue support grant report 1992–93 (revised) (HC 247), approved by the House on 12 February, set out my decisions on the level of RSG and NDR for 1992–93. The RSG total includes the additional resources of £3.5 million that I am making available in recognition of the school teachers' review body recommendations. This additional sum was announced too late to be included in Cm 1916. Appendix 1 of Cm 1916 refers therefore to my original proposal for an RSG allocation of £1,617 million and provides details of the NDR distributable amount and other revenue grants to local authorities for 1992–93.The unhypothecated support to local authorities for 1992–93 of £2,230 million in figure 1.03 of Cm 1916 includes my original proposals for RSG and the distributable amount of NDR together with the other grants itemised in the table.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish tables, covering the years 1986–87 to 1994–95 and consistent with Cm 1916, analysing (a) the Welsh block by economic category within spending sector and (b) the Welsh programme by economic category within spending sector.

The information is set out in tables 1 and 2. The definition of economic categories referred to is as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish tables analysing for the years 1986–87 to 1994–95 the data in figure 1.03 of Cm 1916, analysing the component parts of (a) the Welsh block and (b) other

The information is as follows: