§ Mr. Joel Barnettasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the reply by the Chief Secretary to the right hon. Member for Heywood and Royton.Official Report, 12 November, columns 423–4, on the general allowance for shortfall, if he will give the reasons why he assumes for 1980–81 that higher expenditure plans will result in lower shortfalls than assumed in Cmnd. 7439; how this 338W tion will be published in the December issue ofEconomic Trends.