§ Mr. Lawsonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing, for each year since the introduction of the contingency reserve, the proportion of that reserve that has been allocated to specific programmes as a result of measures announced in his Budget Statement.
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§ Mr. Joel Barnett, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 21st April 1978], gave the following information:
I assume that the hon. Member is interested in the period since the contingency reserve was developed into an
£ million 1977 Survey prices 1976 Budget/1976–77 1977 Budget/1977–78 1978 Budget/1978–79 Contingency reserve in previous public expenditure White Paper … … … … 940 750 750 Allocated in Budget statement … … … 124 116 380