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Our Reference: FOI/2021/2387

Dear Mary

Thank you for your email requesting data pertaining to Clarification on 
ONS Country and regional public sector finances supplementary tables
publication.

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Our Reference: FOI/2021/2388

Dear Mary

Thank you for your email requesting data pertaining to errors centre
around expenditure allocations.

I am writing to confirm that the Office for National Statistics has now
completed its search for the information which you requested and the
response can be found here:

You Asked:

FOI/2021/2388

There are errors around expenditure allocations under expenditure for:

1. International services ( £188 per head (not £177)

2 Public sector debt = £845 per head (not £808 for England, £933 for
Scotland, £856 for Wales, £746 N Ireland)

3 Defence = £652 per head (not £631)

4 Revenue: Wales has 2 x Digital services tax (rows 41 & 44)?

We Said:

Thank you for your request.

Our main data source for expenditure is HM Treasury's publication called
Country and regional analysis (CRA): [1]Country and regional analysis.
This publication provides public sector country and regional expenditure
data based on the "who benefits" concept. These data are adapted and
constrained to ensure consistency with the UK public sector finances

The total expenditures on international services and on defence are
consistent with the data in the HM Treasury publication for Country and
regional analysis in 2020: [2]Country and regional analysis: 2020. This
dataset was published in November 2020, the amounts for the financial year
2019/20 being £11,798 million and £42,174 million, respectively (these can
be found in tables A.5b and A.5c of the CRA).

The population estimates used to derive per-head figures are taken from
the ONS publication called ONS mid-year population estimates: [3]ONS
mid-year population estimates. The data we used were published in June
2020. Dividing the expenditure amounts by the population estimate of
66,796,807 we arrive at £177 per head for expenditure on international
services, and £631 per head for expenditure on defence.

Regarding public sector debt interest, the UK data in the Country and
regional PSF publication are consistent with the February 2021 edition of
the ONS Public sector finances for the UK: [4]Public sector finances, UK:
February 2021. In contrast, the figures in the CRA publication are
consistent with the September 2020 edition of the ONS Public sector
finances for the UK: [5]Public sector finances, UK: September 2020. Public
sector debt interest for the UK is £54,664 million in 2019/20 and is
equivalent to £818 per head using the population estimates above. When
allocating to regions, we use population to apportion debt interest to
ITL1 (International Territorial Levels – Level 1) regions, except for
interest paid by public sector pension funds for which we use expenditure
data available from local government pension schemes in the different
countries. For this reason, the amounts per head are not equal between the
countries. These can be calculated by dividing public sector debt interest
shown in the expenditure tables dataset by the population estimates for
each country found in Table S12 of the supplementary tables dataset. A
link to our expenditure tables dataset is provided: [6]expenditure tables.
A link to our supplementary tables dataset is provided: [7]supplementary
tables.

The country and regional public sector finances are described as
experimental statistics which means that they are within their development
phase. You can find further information on the data and methods used to
attribute revenue and expenditure to countries and regions in our Country
and Regional Public Sector Finances methodology guide: [8]Country and
Regional Public Sector Finances methodology guide.

Thank you for bringing to our attention the duplication of digital
services tax in our revenue tables for Wales. This has now been corrected.

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