HC Deb 10 April 1968 vol 762 cc1362-3
31. Mr. Younger

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will now issue a revised version of the White Paper on the Scottish Economy, Command Paper No. 2864, so that the targets and time-scale can be brought up to date.

Mr. Ross

I have nothing to add to my reply to the hon. Gentleman on 6th March.—[Vol. 760, c. 97.]

Mr. Younger

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that virtually every figure in that Plan is now out of date? As he told us when it was produced that it was essential that the people of Scotland should know what to do and when to get it done, is it not time that he produced another plan to let us know?

Mr. Ross

The hon. Gentleman is wrong. Not all the figures are out of date. I assure him that the public expenditure aspects of this have been well maintained, and are well up to target. They would never have been achieved by the party opposite.