HC Deb 26 April 1978 vol 948 cc588-9W
Mr. Lawson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish his most recent estimate of the difference between planned expenditure and outturn in 1977–78, at 1977 survey prices, in the same format as Tables 5–7 in Command Paper No. 7049-II, including debt interest.

Mr. Joel Barnett

I am not prepared to give estimates in more detail than I have already given in the introduction to Part II of the Financial Statement and Budget Report until firmer figures of the value and volume of public expenditure in 1977–78 are available.