By 2008, that figure had fallen to 26.
Going back decades, such spending had never fallen more than 3 percent per capita in a recession.
If our movie memories weren't Hollywood-skewed, we'd think of Chronicle of the Years of Embers as a classic but, despite winning the Palme d'or in Cannes in 1975, Mohammad Lakhdar-Hamina's film has fallen into the shadows.
The latest statistics from Strasbourg also show that the court's massive backlog of applications has fallen sharply again, down 30% over the year to 69,000.
Crime in London overall has fallen since Hogan-Howe became commissioner in 2011.
This has fallen slightly since then, but their report suggests that with NHS England projections of flat cash for the NHS, and reasonable assumptions around forecast GDP growth, we could see our spend on healthcare falling back to around 6% of GDP by 2021, equivalent of 2003's spending levels.
Marren's research, however, reveals a long tradition of butterflies representing dark desires, fallen angels, temptation and death.
The upcoming spending review provides a renewed opportunity to develop this approach for more difficult and complex social issues, and to bring greater scale, ambition and capability to help the vast numbers of people who have fallen through the cracks of confusing and siloed public services.
The task of devising a distinctive Lib Dem education policy has fallen to Sarah Teather, one of the great beneficiaries of Sir Menzies' leadership victory.
Once a popular hangout among artists and writers, from Paul Bowles to Allen Ginsberg and Matisse, who loved the raffish air and wild, drug-fuelled parties, the city had fallen out of favour since its Fifties' heyday as travellers headed to Marrakesh, but things look set to change.
Among teachers specifically, YouGov reported this year that, where the Conservatives had been one point ahead of Labour in 2010, under Gove's watch they had fallen 41 points behind.
