Public expenditure on agriculture for 1970–71 is estimated on page 39 of the White Paper at £326 million, yet at the very same time the farming community faces the most Desperate Financial Crisis it has had in 25 years.

This is the chance that we have to do justice to those constituents who, through no fault of their own, find themselves in a distressing, Desperate Financial Crisis to which there is no end in sight.

Let us hope that London Metropolitan university will prove to be the last instance of a university plunged into a Desperate Financial Crisis.

Indeed, its introduction proceeded despite the Desperate Financial Crisis at that time, in 1976-77, when this country was under the cosh of the IMF - the IMF was effectively running the Treasury.

Many fishermen have been unable to work since Christmas and consequently now face a Desperate Financial Crisis.