§ Mr. LilleyTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will extend Table 1.3 in the 1998 Financial Statement and Budget report entitled, "The Budget Measures", to each of the tax years 2001–02 indexed and 2002–03 indexed. [43987]
§ Dawn Primarolo[holding answer 1 June 1998]The effects of Budget tax and spending measures are reflected in the fiscal projections set out in the "Financial Statement and Budget Report" (HC620). However, the cost of individual Budget measures on an indexed base shown in Tables 1.3 and C.1 are not routinely estimated beyond 2000–01 and any estimates would become increasingly speculative in later years. For measures where revenue effects are expected to be substantially different from those in Tables 1.3 and C.1, information is already published in FSBR appendix C.1; other estimates would be disproportionately costly.