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Domestic Product, and hold as close as possible to existing plans, that with this objective the Chief Secretary would hold bilateral discussions in the autumn and that in the light of these the Government would take decisions on individual programmes and the planning totals, which would be announced, as usual, in the Autumn Statement in November. The bilateral discussions should be carried on in confidence and the press should be given no ground on which to base speculative stories of Ministerial disagreement.
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