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Sir Godfrey Collins moved as an amendment that the Govern-

ment should reduce expenditure " to the utmost extent possible," and suggested that the total should not exceed £1,060,000,000, including £110,000,000 for the redemption of debt. Lord Hugh Cecil advocated a Select Committee with authority " to fix a sum to which the Government would have to conform " by rationing the departments. Sir Donald Maclean admitted that £808,000,000 would not suffice, but he strongly supported the policy of rationing. The House next year ought to disregard new legislation and devote forty days, instead of twenty, to the Estimates.

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