§ 64. Mr. A. E. Cooperasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the financial surplus or deficits for each country in the sterling area for the year ended 31st March, 1957; and the effect of such figures upon the dollar and gold reserves of the sterling area.
§ Mr. BirchIt is not the practice to give details of the balance of payments of other individual sterling area countries. But the balance of payments White Paper contains some information about the sterling and non-sterling transactions of the132W rest of the sterling area as a whole during 1956 and earlier years insofar as these enter into the balance of payments of this country.