§ Mr. Albuasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will now announce his plans for publishing information relevant to the Budget.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsYes. The White Paper on Preliminary Estimates of National Income and Balance of Payments 1963 to 1968 will be published on Wednesday 9th April and the White Paper on Loans from the National Loans Fund on Budget Day as last year. There will be some changes in the arrangement and appearance of the Financial Statement which will be restyled "Financial Statement and Budget Report" and will include a survey of the progress of the economy during the previous year. In view of this, I propose to discontinue the annual Economic Report which has
258Whitherto been published in the week before the Budget: the need for this has in any case declined since the publication of a commentary on the course of the economy each month in Economic Trends. The national income estimates for the fourth quarter of the preceding year, previously first published in that report, will be included instead in the White Paper on Preliminary Estimates of National Income and Balance of Payments.