MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer what amount of the fixed charge for the Debt of £27,000,000 was, in the year ending 31st March. 1904, applied respectively to interest on the Funded Debt. interest on the Unfunded Debt, charges for terminable annuities, management of the Debt, and New Sinking Fund; what are the corresponding estimated figures for 1904–5; what was the total amount applied in reduction of the capital of the Debt in 1903–4; and what is the total amount estimated to be so applied in 1904–5.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain). Permanent Charge of the Debt—