§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Chancellor or the Exchequer what is his estimate of the value of British-held assets in South Africa, Australia, Japan, the United States of America, Canada, the Irish Republic, and the remaining EEC countries.
§ Mr. Robert SheldonThe available information at present relates to the end of 1971 and is of book values of United Kingdom direct investment overseas excluding oil, banks and insurance companies. It is published in Business Monitor M4, Part 2 (1972) table 35 and a copy is available in the Library. No estimates are available of the country breakdown of United Kingdom portfolio investments overseas.