§ 39. Mr. Bruce-Gardyneasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the cost to public funds of subsidies to the nationalised industries to compensate them for price increases deferred or restricted in conformity with the Confederation of British Industry price restraint scheme; and what is his latest estimate of the total cost of such subsidies during the current calendar and financial years, respectively.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinI have nothing to add to the answers given to my hon. Friend on 16th May and to my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam282W (Mr. J. H. Osborn) on 7th March.—[Vol. 837, c. 51; Vol. 832, c. 279.]