As the Chancellor considers his Public
Expenditure White Paper and his plans for the next three years, Sir Alec Cairncross , Head of Government Economic
Service 1964-69, examines the problems he faces in turning the tide of government spending. He g joined by Sir Leo Pliatzky , former Second Permanent Secretary to the Treasury in charge of Public expenditure,
Professor Alan Peacock , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham and John Kay , Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, to discuss whether government spending now has an Inevitable upward momentum of its own. Producer
CAROLINE THOMSON