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Treasury

Answer

Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish for each year from 1998-99 to 2005-06 a table showing the levels of expenditure in England comparable to that expenditure in (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales that is both within the assigned budget and within the scope of the Barnett formula, at the same level of programme detail as is provided in the analysis of 2002-03 provision in Annex C of the third edition of Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly: A Statement of Funding Policy. [152446] Mr. Boateng: The Barnett formula is used to determine increases in spending of the devolved Administrations, rather than the previous levels of spending in England or the devolved Administrations. Information on subprogrammes for earlier years was published in Annex C of the first and second editions of the Statement of Funding Policy in 1999 and 2000.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

417 c1002W; 152446

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Devolution Northern Ireland Public expenditure Scotland Wales

Link

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