Public Expenditure Blue Book

HC Deb 17 March 1976 vol 907 c541W

Mr. John Moore

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer who, apart from the 70 organisations he referred to in his answer to the hon. Member for Croydon, Central, on Wednesday 3rd March, received the other 195 copies of the confidental final revise of Command Paper No. 6393, Public Expenditure to 1979–80.

Mr. Joel Barnett

Further to my reply to the hon. Member on 3rd March, Confidential Final Revise copies of Command Paper No. 6393, Public Expenditure to 1979–80, were distributed to Press and broadcasting organisations as follows103 copies to the organisations listed in my reply to the hon. Member on 3rd March; 81 copies to Lobby correspondents and to accredited overseas correspondents in the Press Gallery; 80 copies to journalists attending the Chancellor of the Exchequer's embargoed Press conference.