Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 April 1964.
There certainly are some imponderables in local government finance, but when the Steering Committee agreed to go into the problem it was agreed that the problem of local government finance should be considered at the same time. I do not anticipate, as I have said to the Standing Committee, that we are likely to get a final report for perhaps at least another year.