§ 7. Mr. Emrys Hughesasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will resume the practice of the former Government and publish an illustrated pamphlet entitled, "The Budget and Your Pocket," explaining, in the simplest terms, what the Budget proposals will mean to the British taxpayer.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThe usual Budget poster will be prepared as soon as the Finance Bill is enacted, and will be widely distributed.
§ Mr. HughesIs the Minister aware that in the days of the Labour Government the Chancellor of the Exchequer used to publish an interesting booklet called "The Budget and your Pocket" which enabled ordinary people, like the hon. Gentleman the Member for Croydon, East (Sir H. Williams), who cannot understand the Economic Survey, to appreciate some facts about their national life? Also, does not the right hon. Gentleman think it would help the old-age pensioners to understand the position?
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterI think the explanation of my right hon. Friend's financial proposals, which he and others have given from this Box, are adequate to explain the admirable nature of those proposals.
§ Commander DonaldsonIs my right hon. Friend aware that there are some extraordinary people who would also like elucidation, such as the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes)?
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterI do my best to explain them to him, too.
§ Mr. RussellIs it not a fact that the Budgets of the Labour Government needed much more explaining than the Budgets of my right hon. Friend?
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterSome of them, I think, defied explanation.