Public Expenditure

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.

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

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|Financial year|Total managed expenditure divided by UK population (£)|
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|1997-98       |5,521                                                 |
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|1998-99       |5,657                                                 |
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|1999-2000     |5,843                                                 |
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|2000-01       |6,183                                                 |
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|2001-02       |6,582                                                 |
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|2002-03       |7,097                                                 |
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|2003-04       |7,648                                                 |
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|2004-05       |8,232                                                 |
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|2005-06       |8,703                                                 |
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|2006-07       |9,074                                                 |
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