Public Expenditure

(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the level of overall government spending per capita in real terms in (1) Cornwall, (2) Devon, and (3) England, in each year since 2010.


Answered by
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Lord Bates
This question was answered on 8th November 2017

Data is not available for the overall government spending per capita in real terms for Cornwall and Devon. However, the total identifiable public sector expenditure on services in England, per head and in real terms is provided in the following table:

Year

£ per head

2011-12

8,929

2012-13

8,791

2013-14

8,729

2014-15

8,754

2015-16

8,816

Source: 2015-16 – Country and Regional Analyses (CRA)

Note: A time series from 2011-12 to 2015-16 has been provided because these were collected in the most recent ‘Country and Regional Analyses’ exercise. Data in 2010-11 is not comparable with these later years due to changes to methodology between collection exercises.

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