Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 12 October 2010.
What recent estimate he has made of the proportion of the central Government tax take from residents of the east midlands which is spent on that region.
We cannot accurately disaggregate tax revenue by individual regions, but we publish regionally disaggregated public spending tables each year. Total identifiable expenditure in the east midlands was £35.4 billion in 2009-10.
I thank the Minister for that answer, but as he is well aware, Leicestershire is historically one of the lowest-funded parts of the UK for education, the police and the fire services. Can he assure me that that historically low funding settlement will be taken into account in the comprehensive spending review?
The hon. Gentleman will have to wait until the statement on