ELEVENTH REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL EXPENDITURE The Committee had before them a memorandum by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (L.P.(44) 200) dealing with the Eleventh Report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER explained that the report contained four proposals:- (i) that a Select Committee should be set up during the present Session to enquire into the most effective means of securing control by Parliament of public expenditure; (ii) that the existing restriction of the Committee's enquiries to "services directly connected with the war" should be removed, on the ground that the phrase was already difficult to interpret and would become increasingly so during the transition from war to peace; (iii) that the Committee should be able to examine "any matters that are the object of current expenditure", on the grounds that they could operate more effectively if, in considering services which extended over a considerable period, they were not limited to consideration of those payments which could strictly be called current; (iv) that the Committee should be authorised to present to the House of Commons a general and objective review of the distribution of national expenditure on war services during the past five years.