The Ministry of Transport is not down on the list
of the seven departments on which, according to Tuesday's announcement, Mr. Chamberlain's seven testing Committees are to report. The Departments to be investigated are the Ministries of Agricul- ture, Labour, Munitions, the Board of Trade, the Department of Overseas Trade, the National Savings Committee and the Royal Commission of Sugar Supplies. The omission of the Ministry of Transport is not of much moment, as there is little doubt that the Ministries will be perfectly able to " justify " their expenditure to the Committees. Nothing is easier than to prove that this or that piece of expenditure is necessary. What is needed, as we have always said, is to consider the problem from the other end. What we need is to ration the various departments. The test must not be "What expenditure can you justify ? " but "How are you going to allocate the sum allotted to you ? "
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