Public Expenditure

(asked on 22nd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 21 March 2017 (HL5881), whether they will publish an updated table including (1) pensions, (2) health, and (3) total managed expenditure, for 2016–17.


Answered by
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Lord Bates
This question was answered on 5th February 2018

The requested information is in the table:

1978-79

1996-97

2009-10

2015-16

2016-17

(1) National insurance-funded pensions (£billion) (1)

7.6

32.0

66.8

89.3

91.5

as a percentage of Total Managed Expenditure

9.5%

9.9%

9.6%

11.8%

11.9%

(2) UK Health Expenditure (£billion) (2)

7.8

42.8

116.9

138.5

144.3

as a percentage of Total Managed Expenditure

9.8%

13.2%

16.9%

18.4%

18.7%

Total Managed Expenditure (£billion) (3)

79.7

323.9

693.1

753.9

770.6

Data Sources:

(1) Benefit expenditure and caseload tables published by the Department of Work and Pensions. Figures for National insurance-funded pensions have been provided in line with the request in the initial PQ referred to.

(2) Table 4.2 of Public Expenditure and Statistical Analyses 2017 published by HM Treasury,

and the equivalent table for 1978-79 data.

(3) Data published by the Office for National Statistics consistent with the Public Expenditure

Statistical Analyses 2017.

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