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Public Expenditure

Volume 474: debated on Wednesday 26 March 2008

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Bob Spink

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the level of Government spending per capita was in each of the last 10 years. (196461)

Yvette Cooper

Total managed expenditure per head (total UK population) from 1997-98 to 2006-07 is provided in the following table:

Financial year

Total managed expenditure divided by UK population (£)

1997-98

5,521

1998-99

5,657

1999-2000

5,843

2000-01

6,183

2001-02

6,582

2002-03

7,097

2003-04

7,648

2004-05

8,232

2005-06

8,703

2006-07

9,074