asked the Minister for Education the total voted educational expenditure as a percentage of GNP for 1979 and 1980.
Written Answers. - Voted Educational Expenditure.
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Actual voted educational expenditure for 1979, including Supplementary Estimates, was 5.9 per cent of GNP.
The total of the amounts included in the original Estimates for the education group of votes for 1980 would represent 5.8 per cent of estimated GNP for 1980—estimate in Financial Statement of the Minister for the Finance on 27 February 1980.