To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the per capita public expenditure was in (a) the East Midlands and (b) the UK in the last period for which figures are available. (142785)

Information on total identifiable expenditure per capita for each region of England and for the UK is set out in the HM Treasury publication, “Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) 2007”, May 2007. This provides outturn data from 2001-02 to 2005-06 and is available at:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/economic_data_and_tools/finance_spending_statistics/pes_publications/pespub_pesa07.cfm