Public Expenditure

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:38 pm on 20 July 2000.

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Photo of Malcolm Chisholm Malcolm Chisholm Labour, Edinburgh North and Leith 4:38, 20 July 2000

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his helpful point.

I conclude by welcoming this significant boost to public expenditure. This is a significant political moment, when the balance of argument has shifted decisively in favour of public expenditure after two decades in which the assumption has been, in England at least, that high levels of public expenditure were not politically popular. Now the climate seems to have changed in England—although I must say that it has always been the case in Scotland that we support high levels of public expenditure.