§ Mr. Shoreasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the Government's expenditure plans for 1982–83, as announced on 2 December 1981, imply for the volume of expenditure as compared with 1981–82; and on what inflation assumptions the revised public expenditure figures were based.
§ Sir Geoffrey HoweI announced on 15 September the inflation factors which were used to revalue to cash the plans in the March 1981 White Paper, as a starting point for the 1981 public expenditure survey. Subsequent decisions took into account both proposed changes in policy and proposals to allow, in the provision for particular programmes, for exceptional movements in costs.