§ Sir C. Osborneasked the Minister of Overseas Development, in view of the facts that average industrial wages in Great Britain are £20 a week and that 270,000,000 Indians are living on 3½d. a day, by how much he plans to increase the 1 per cent. of Great Britain's gross national product given in overseas aid; and what effect this will have on the United Kingdom's standard of living.
§ Mr. OramWithin our programme India has always received very sympathetic treatment. We unfortunately cannot increase our aid programme in our present economic circumstances.