Public Expenditure

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wales – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 January 1997.

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Photo of Mr John Marshall Mr John Marshall , Hendon South 12:00, 20 January 1997

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on a level of public expenditure that is so high that the shadow Chancellor says that there is no need to increase it. How does the shadow Chancellor square that with the request of individual Labour Members to increase every item of public expenditure? Does my right hon. Friend think that that is because the shadow Chancellor is wise enough not to read his colleagues' speeches, or sufficiently innumerate not to be able to add up the sums?