Government Policy (Prime Minister's Speech)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 April 1974.

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Photo of Mr Nigel Lawson Mr Nigel Lawson , Blaby 12:00, 30 April 1974

I apologise, Mr. Speaker.

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in his speech at Leeds he said that the Budget would have borne a very different complexion had it not been for the three-day working week? Is he not aware that this is totally at variance with the explanation of the Budget judgment given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget speech? Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us which taxes would have been different and whether they would have been higher or lower, and by how much, had it not been for the three-day working week?