§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amount raised by new capital issues in the first half of the current year for industry, trade, and finance as compared with the amount raised in a similar period in 1929?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCENo official figures are compiled, but those published by the "Economist" show that new issues in the London Market in the first half of 1930 amounted to £169,655,700 as compared with £174,393,600 in the first half of 1929. If "industry, trade and finance" be taken to exclude the loans of Governments and Municipalities, the totals are £49,504,600 and £133,771,200 respectively.