Identifying the Flow of Domestic and European Expenditure into the English Regions
This page contains the reports from the research project "Identifying the flow of domestic and European expenditure into the English regions". The research was commissioned by the Local and Regional Government Research Unit , Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in April 2002. The principal investigator was Professor Iain McLean.
The first phase of the research comprised a literature review of previous reports on public expenditure in the regions of England, and a desk analysis of the data that Departments supply to HM Treasury for its official publication, Public Expenditure: Statistical Analyses, known as PESA. PESA publishes an annual rolling series of tables giving public expenditure, and public expenditure per head, in each of the four countries of the UK and each of the nine regions of England.
The second phase comprised field research in the Departments and agencies that supply the data. Most of our field researchers visited their Departments twice. In the first visit, in autumn 2002, they discussed their Department's procedures for gathering and reporting data on English regional expenditure with the Departmental officials responsible. In their second visit, in winter 2002-03, they observed the compilation and return of the data in real time as Departments made their returns to HM Treasury for the latest edition of PESA.
The third phase comprised a study of the flows of European public expenditure into the English regions, involving discussions with both European Commission Directorates-General and UK government departments.
The Report was published on 5 September 2003.
The Report
This report is in Adobe Acrobat format. If you do not have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer, you can download it from the Adobe web site.
A paper copy of the report may be obtained from Lin Sorrell. Price: £40.00 including p & p. Please make cheques payable to 'Nuffield College'.