§ Other public authorities are being asked to co-operate in restraining both current and capital expenditure. My right hon. Friends the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland are communicating with hospital boards in this sense. In the hospitals, as in the local authority services, we are not reducing the programmes which have already been announced but, subject to this, we are asking the hospital boards to ensure that only those works are undertaken which 218 are of the most urgent and necessary character.
§ My right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation is going ahead with the roads programme which has been announced, but in present circumstances the Government cannot agree to an extension or acceleration of it, much as we should like to.