There are many ways of looking at the figures. You can show almost anything you want but the one clear thing is the north east of England and the south west get a really raw deal
One of the inaccurate things that usually present in these stats is that UK wide companies that have their head office in London any profits are shown as originating in London rthather than where they are generated
Another one is that if you take total government spending it shows the south east of England getting the most – Whitehall salaries and so on – all pumping money into the south East – so London and the south east are the subsidy junkies.
As for Scotland – the net flow of money is from Scotland to England shown many times over and its actually getting worse.
Scotland has around 9% of the UK population but under Barnet only gets 8% of any rises in public spending – so each year Scotlands share of the cake decreases relative to population. and all that money getting spent on the olympics has been excluded from Barnet – altho it should be in there – If Scotland got its fair share of that money……..