HC Deb 22 March 1932 vol 263 c851
22. Mr. HANNON

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any figures are available of the estimated amount of interest paid to foreign and colonial owners of capital invested in the United Kingdom for the years 1929, 1930, and 1931?

Mr. RUNCIMAN

My hon. Friend will find, in the article on the balance of trade published in the "Board of Trade Journal" for 18th February, a statement that the amount of interest and dividends paid on long term investments in the United Kingdom to persons not resident in this country had been estimated at about £15 million in 1929 and that in 1931 a somewhat smaller amount may have been payable.