§ 53. Mr. SUNLIGHTasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the number of individuals who invested in or now hold War Savings Certificates of an amount not exceeding £25, £50 and £100, respectively; and if he can say that these small investors are of the wage-earning class?
§ Mr. SNOWDENI regret that the statistics asked for in the first part of the question are not available. As regards the second part, the hon. Member may remember that the Committee that inquired last year into Savings Certificates, etc., reported that, while the distribution could not be ascertained with any exactitude, they thought it probable that at least one-half of the Certificates sold up to the 31st March, 1922, represented subscriptions by those classes of the community for whom this form of saving was primarily designed.