Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 April 1960.
annually both in 1958 and 1959 so that Parliament had an opportunity to scrutinise the matter in the Finance Bill annually, he now proposes to take powers for three years ahead at one bite, thus effectively removing from Parliamentary accountability the opportunity to scrutinise these big figures before—and I emphasise before—the money is spent?