Soroka, Stuart N.; Wlezien, Christopher; McLean, Iain - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 169 (2006) 2, pp. 255-271
Studying spending over time requires reliable data. It is not clear that such data exist in the UK, however. The two published sources of functional spending numbers-the Office for National Statistics's 'blue book' and Her Majesty's Treasury's "Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses"...