§ 47. Mr. GALBRAITHasked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the 406 Government to adopt the recommendation of the Ninth Report of the National Expenditure Committee, 1918, that the Treasury should cease to be a spending Department?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINIf the hon. Member will be good enough to refer to the answer given on the 26th February, 1920, to the hon. Member for Oxford, he will see that I then stated that I was "in general agreement with this recommendation, which, indeed, represents substantially the present position."