HC Deb 01 March 1985 vol 74 c319W
Mr. Sir John Farr

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will revise the projected net cash budgets of the British Overseas Trade Board for the next four years to take account of the fall in the value of the pound sterling.

Mr. Channon

No. The Government place great importance on the restraint of public expenditure through cash limits and the BOTB budget cannot be exempt from the economies necessary to bring this about.