§ Mr. Powellasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a table showing the annual balance since 1951 between United States defence expenditure in sterling in Great Britain and British defence expenditure in dollars in the United States of America.
§ Mr. HealeyThe most readily available information for all the years in question is in the following table. This shows Government defence expenditure on invisible account (excluding Defence Aid) by the United States and Canada in 355W the United Kingdom and by the United Kingdom in North America.
£ million U.S.-Canada in U.K. U.K. in North America 1952 … … 13 3 1953 … … 14 1 1954 … … 30 1 1955 … … 38 2 1956 … … 48 3 1957 … … 62 5 1958 … … 36 2 1959 … … 24 3 1960 … … 31 2 1961 … … 23 6 1962 … … 22 5 1963 … … 19 2 1964 … … 20 13 1965 … … 13 9