HC Deb 16 February 1968 vol 758 cc431-2W
Sir C. Osborne

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) why he instructed officials of his Department to refuse the request of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's working party No. 3 last month in Paris for a statement on the forward quantitative estimates on which Her Majesty's Government are basing their policies;

(2) what answer he gave to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's questions put to him in Paris last month as to whether Her Majesty's Government's wages guide level of 3½ per cent. was for wage rates or earnings, and as to how this is to be enforced.

Mr. Roy Jenkins:

The discussions in this Working Party are confidential.