HC Deb 08 March 1976 vol 907 cc91-2W
Mr. Newton

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the figures for changes in personal consumption in Table 1.1 of Command Paper No. 6393, assuming (a) increase in gross domestic product of 2 per cent., 3 per cent. and 4 per cent., respectively, over the three years 1976–79, and (b) no further changes in planned public expenditure; and what would be the consequences for taxation on the same assumptions.

Mr. Joel Barnett

I regret that projections assuming GDP growth rates other borrowed by the Government since 1st March 1974;

(2) what is his estimate of the amount likely to be recovered by taxation of the total sum paid by way of interest, up to the latest date for which figures are available, on sums borrowed by the Government since 1st March 1974.

Mr. Joel Barnett

The information requested is not available.