Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Overseas Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 March 1979.
My hon. Friend knows perfectly well that the Chancellor, in a speech, gave a very rough and ready set of figures on the basis of a hypothesis which he by no means accepted as being the likely outturn. What my right hon. Friend said was nothing like what my hon. Friend and the Committee were asking us to do, namely, to provide much more detailed and constantly updated assessments. I believe that to have been an unreasonable request.