§ Captain Pluggeasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the probable necessity of increasing expenditure on armaments, he will consider the desirability of setting up forthwith a committee or commission to examine all branches of national expenditure with a view to ascertaining in what directions economies are possible on a permanent or temporary basis?
§ Sir J. SimonI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Bilston (Mr. Hannah) on 28th July.