Public Expenditure in the English Regions: Measurement Problems and (Partial) Solutions

Political Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 121-131

  Cameron, Gavin ^a,b   McLean, Iain ^a,c   Wlezien, Christopher ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Lady Margaret Hall ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 11144356278     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2004.00595.x     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Our full report is I. McLean et al., Identifying the Flow of Domestic and European Expenditure into the English Regions, Oxford, Nuffield College and London, ODPM, 2003. Also online at http://www.local.odpm.gov.uk/research/ idenrprt.pdf. We wish to acknowledge generous support from our three funding departments - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, HM Treasury and DEFRA - and research support from Nuffield College and from our sixteen fieldwork collaborators (who are listed in on p. vi of our full report). All conclusions are ours alone.
2. Christopher Allsopp, Review of Statistics for Economic Policymaking: First Report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Governor of the Bank of England and the National Statistician, London, HM Treasury, 2003, Table 3.1.
3. Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Your Region, Your Choice: Revitalising the English Regions, Cm 5511, London: DTLR, 2002.
4. For example, I. McLean and A. McMillan, 'The distribution of public expenditure across the English regions', Fiscal Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2003, pp. 45-71; K. Morgan, 'The English question: Regional perspectives on a fractured nation', Regional Studies, vol. 36, no. 7, 2002, pp. 797-810; A. Midwinter, 'Territorial resource allocation in the UK: A rejoinder on needs assessment', Regional Studies, vol. 36, no. 5, 2002, pp. 563-7.
5. For example, I. McLean and A. McMillan, 'The distribution of public expenditure across the English regions', Fiscal Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2003, pp. 45-71; K. Morgan, 'The English question: Regional perspectives on a fractured nation', Regional Studies, vol. 36, no. 7, 2002, pp. 797-810; A. Midwinter, 'Territorial resource allocation in the UK: A rejoinder on needs assessment', Regional Studies, vol. 36, no. 5, 2002, pp. 563-7.
6. For example, I. McLean and A. McMillan, 'The distribution of public expenditure across the English regions', Fiscal Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2003, pp. 45-71; K. Morgan, 'The English question: Regional perspectives on a fractured nation', Regional Studies, vol. 36, no. 7, 2002, pp. 797-810; A. Midwinter, 'Territorial resource allocation in the UK: A rejoinder on needs assessment', Regional Studies, vol. 36, no. 5, 2002, pp. 563-7.
7. Allsopp, Review of Statistics for Economic Policymaking, chapter 5.
8. Cameron and Muellbauer discuss problems with the household income components of the National Accounts. See G. Cameron and J. Muellbauer, 'Earnings biases in the UK Regional Accounts: some economic policy and research implications', Economic Journal, vol. 110, no. 464, 2000, pp. F412-F429.
9. The latest editions are Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom National Accounts: The Blue Book 2003, London, TSO, 2003; and HM Treasury, Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2003, Cm 5901, London, HM Treasury, 2003.
10. The latest editions are Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom National Accounts: The Blue Book 2003, London, TSO, 2003; and HM Treasury, Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2003, Cm 5901, London, HM Treasury, 2003.
11. McLean and McMillan, 'The distribution of public expenditure across the English regions'.
12. Most recently, HM Treasury, Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2003.
13. Office for National Statistics, National Statistics Code of Practice: Statement of Principles, London, ONS, 2002.
14. ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee, Reducing Regional Disparities in Prosperity: Ninth Report of Session 2002-03, vol. I, Report, HC492-I, London, TSO, 2003.