§ Mr. Albuasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will set out in the OFFICIAL REPORT the figures for overseas investment, public and private, investment in the United Kingdom by foreign nationals, overseas aid, grants and loans, overseas expenditure, and the surplus or deficit on the United Kingdom balance of payments for each of the last 10 years and for the first half of 1964.
Mr. MarDermotThe figures of overseas aid in grants and loans disbursed since 1960 are brought together and published in "Financial Statistics", (Table 82 in the December 1964 issue). The figures for periods earlier than 1960 are only available for financial years and are contained in Tables 277 and 278 of "The Annual Abstract of Statistics—1961" and previous issues. The annual figures of all the other items up to 1963 are available in "United Kingdom Balance of Payments—1964", Table 1 Figures for the first half of 1964 appeared in Table 1 appended to the article on the U.K. balance of payments in the September 1964 issue of "Economic Trends"
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