§ Sir C. Osborneasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give in column form the national expenditure on tobacco and alcohol, respectively, for each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. Harold LeverI would refer the hon. Member to Table 27 of the Blue Book "National Income and Expenditure 1967", which gives the figures for each year from 1956–66 inclusive. Corresponding figures for 1967 and for the first quarter of 1968 are in Table 5 of the Monthly Digest of Statistics. Copies of both publications are in the Library.