§ Mr. Robert Taylorasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a supplement to Command Paper No. 6440 to show a comparison of expenditure figures for the year 1975–76 with those figures published in tables 1 and 2 and Appendix 1 of that paper.
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§ Mr. Joel BarnettThe cash limits for 1976–77 published in Cmnd. 6440 took account of the planned volume of expenditure in the public expenditure White Paper (Cmnd. 6393), but they were not directly derived from levels of cash expenditure in 1975–76. The information now available on the outturn of expenditure in 1975–76 is not readily regrouped by reference to the cash blocks adopted for 1976–77, and the cost of doing this would be disproportionate.