HC Deb 21 October 1968 vol 770 cc235-6W
Mr. Hordern

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will specify the re -ductions made in 1968–69 of £100 millions in civil public expenditure as a whole in accordance with the measures proposed on 18th November 1967.

Mr. Taverne

A detailed list of reductions in the planned programmes of the nationalised industries was contained in my right hon. Friend's reply to the hon. Member for Bristol, Central (Mr. Palmer) on 21st December last, as amended by the reply given to the hon. Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Straton Mills) on 6th February. Further reductions in public expenditure, totalling £300 million were announced by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in his statement of 16th January, which was published as Cmnd. 3515. —[Vol. 756, c. 488; Vol. 758, c. 96–7 Vol. 756, c. 1577–1618.]