disquieting in the light of our general financial position, and of the various declarations by the Chancellor, both in his Budget speech of April last and in his speeches during the October Devaluation Crisis.

I want to confine myself to the Amendment and to the very disquieting situation which is revealed by these Supplementary Estimates totalling £148 million; disquieting in the light of our general financial position, and of the various declarations by the Chancellor, both in his Budget speech of April last and in his speeches during the October Devaluation Crisis.