§ 40. Sir Leonard Lyleasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will, omitting purely wartime provision, state in detail the financial commitments into which the Government has already entered in connection with post-war reconstruction or development.
§ Mr. AsshetonI have been asked to reply. The financial effect of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act and of the Education and Rural Water and Sewerage Bills is set out in the financial memoranda which accompanied the respective Bills. The White Paper on a National Health Service contains an appendix on finance, and the forthcoming White Papers on Social Insurance and Workmen's Compensation will deal with the financial aspects of those schemes. In other fields in which plans involving large expenditure are under consideration, matters have not yet reached a stage at which estimates can be given of the expenditure to be incurred but Parliament will certainly be fully informed on their financial aspects in due course.