Government Expenditure

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 December 1947.

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Photo of Sir Waldron Smithers Sir Waldron Smithers , Orpington 12:00, 16 December 1947

What earthly good is it to pass an anti-inflationary Budget, while almost in the same breath giving an increase in miners' wages, which puts up the cost of coal to the consumer by 3s. 6d. a ton?