§ Mr. Denzil Daviesasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage rate of price increases was applied for the purposes of determining the public expenditure totals in this financial year of (i) the Welsh Office, (ii) the Department of Transport, (iii) the Ministry of Defence and (iv) the Foreign Office: and what will be the corresponding figures or the next financial year.
§ Sir Geoffrey HoweI refer the right hon. Gentleman to the last public expenditure White Paper, Cmnd. 8175 of March 1981, which explained (paragraph 9 on page 5) how the cash plans for 1981–82 were constructed; and to the Economic Progress Report of November 1981, which explained how the plans in Cmnd. 8175 for 1982–83 were converted into cash before the Government's decisions were taken in the 1981 survey. The cash plans resulting from those decisions will be published in the forthcoming public expenditure White Paper, to be published next month.