PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Public Expenditure: North West (9 July 2014)

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the amount of money from the public purse invested in public projects in (a) Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency, (b) South Lakeland, (c) Cumbria and (d) the North West (i) since 2010 and (ii) between 2005 and 2010.

Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

Data on money from the public purse invested in public projects in Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency, South Lakeland and Cumbria is not centrally available. The Department for Communities and Local Government collect information on local authority current and capital expenditure however this forms just part of total public expenditure.

In addition there is no central source on money from the public purse invested in public projects in the English Regions. However, please see the following table on total identifiable capital expenditure on services in the North West.

Table 1 Total identifiable capital expenditure on services: North West

Year	£ million
2005-06	3,632
2006-07	4,442
2007-08	5,235
2008-09	5,866
2009-10	6,010
2010-11	5,608
2011-12	4,503
2012-13	4,970

Source: 2008-09 to 2012-13 – Country and Regional Analyses (CRA) 2013; 2007-08 – CRA 2012; 2006-07 – CRA 2011; 2005-06 PESA 2011.

Note: 2008-09 to 2012-13 are comparable as they are on the same basis and were collected as part of the same exercise. Data in prior years will not be fully comparable due to possible changes to methodology between each collection exercise.

Answered by:
Danny Alexander (Liberal Democrat)
22 July 2014