HC Deb 03 March 1976 vol 906 cc644-6W
Mr. Norman Lamont

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish a table showing gross public expenditure, charges and other directly related receipts as in previous White Papers, for each of the years 1974–75 to 1979–80.

Mr. Joel Barnett

These estimates are no longer used in the broad planning of public expenditure. Their collection was discontinued in the 1975 Public Expenditure Survey as a measure of economy.

Mr. John Moore

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report the individuals concerned, as well as their organisations, who received confidential final revised copies of Command Paper No. 6393, "Public Expenditure to 1979–80."

Mr. Joel Barnett

Further to my reply to the hon. Member on 26th February, confidential final revise copies of Command Paper No. 6393, "Public Expenditure to 1979–80", were distributed to newspapers and broadcasting organisations as follows: City editors and economic correspondents of the organisations listed below; Lobby correspondents; certain accredited overseas correspondents in the Press Gallery and journalists attending the Chancellor of the Exchequer's embargoed Press conference on Thursday 19th February. It is not possible to give all the names of the journalists concerned in the distribution. The organisations referred to above are:

  • The Times.
  • The Guardian.
  • Daily Mail.
  • Daily Mirror.
  • Evening News.
  • Financial Times.
  • The Daily Telegraph.
  • Daily Express.
  • Sun.
  • Evening Standard.
  • Observer.
  • Sunday Telegraph.
  • Sunday People.
  • Exchange Telegraph.
  • Reuters.
  • Birmingham Daily Post.
  • Liverpool Daily Post.
  • Northcliffe Newspapers.
  • United Newspapers Group.
  • Yorkshire Post.
  • Aberdeen Press and Journal.
  • Daily Mail. Glasgow.
  • Dundee Courier.
  • Edinburgh Evening News.
  • Glasgow Evening Times.
  • Scottish Daily Express.
  • Scottish Television.
  • Western Mail.
  • Harlech Television.
  • City Press.
  • Investors' Chronicle.
  • Labour Weekly.
  • New Statesman.
  • BBC.
  • ITN.
  • Koelnische Rundschau.
  • Ap-Dow Jones.
  • Stuttgarter Zeitung.
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine.
  • New York Times.
  • Wall Street Journal.
  • Agence France Press.
  • Sunday Times.
  • Sunday Express.
  • News of the World.
  • Press Association.
  • Universal News Services.
  • Bristol Evening Post.
  • Manchester Evening News.
  • Thomson Newspapers.
  • Westminster Press.
  • Aberdeen Evening Express.
  • Daily Record, Glasgow.
  • Dundee Evening Telegraph.
  • The Glasgow Herald.
  • The Scotsman.
  • BBC, Glasgow.
  • Press Association Glasgow.
  • BBC (Wales).
  • Economist.
  • Spectator.
  • New Society.
  • Thames TV.
  • Independent Radio News.
  • Die Welt.
  • West German Economic News Agency.
  • Der Tagespiegel.
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  • Bund Economic Correspondent Bern.
  • Washington Post.
  • Neue Zurcher Zeitung.

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