Expenditure

Mr. Tebbit
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give public expenditure and also general Government expenditure, expressed both in value terms and as a percentage of gross domestic product, in 1978.

Mr. Joel Barnett
Estimates of public expenditure and general Government expenditure in 1978 are not yet available.

These will be published in the April edition of Financial Statistics. An estimate of public expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product at market prices for 1978–79 has been published in table 3 of "The Government's expenditure plans 1979–80 to 1982–83 ", Cmnd. 7439.