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<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Services</strong> Industry Review<br />

2.7 Figure 2.3 shows how <strong>the</strong> PSI has grown since 1995/96 - from £31bn to £79bn at<br />

nominal prices and from £42bn to £79bn at real prices. Over <strong>the</strong> first 8 years of <strong>the</strong><br />

period <strong>the</strong> PSI grew by 7 per cent per year in real terms, but since 2003/4 growth has<br />

fallen to an annual average of 3 per cent. This fall partly reflects <strong>the</strong> slower growth of<br />

total government expenditure, but it also indicates a slowdown in <strong>the</strong> rate at which<br />

government is contracting with <strong>the</strong> PSI.<br />

Figure 2.3: Growth of <strong>the</strong> UK PSI since 1995/6<br />

80<br />

70<br />

60<br />

50<br />

£billion<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

Nominal prices<br />

Real prices<br />

10<br />

0<br />

1995/96<br />

1996/97<br />

1997/98<br />

1998/99<br />

1999/00<br />

2000/01<br />

2001/02<br />

2002/03<br />

2003/04<br />

2004/05<br />

2005/06<br />

2006/07<br />

2007/08<br />

Source: Oxford Economics<br />

2.8 Ano<strong>the</strong>r way to view this is to calculate <strong>the</strong> share of total public services (i.e. current<br />

spending excluding transfer payments, debt interest and procurement of goods)<br />

provided by <strong>the</strong> PSI (see Figure 2.4). This peaked at 33.6 per cent in 2003/04 and has<br />

since fluctuated around 32.6 per cent.<br />

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