§ Mr. Leeasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer in how many cases more capital has flowed into the United Kingdom than flowed out of it in respect of EEC countries during 1975.
§ Mr. DellIt is regretted that the information required to answer this Question is not available. Tentative estimates of capital flows between the United Kingdom and the rest of the EEC as a whole for the years 1973 and 1974 are given in Table 44 of "United Kingdom Balance of Payments 1964–1974". But only a limited amount of information is available on capital flows between the United Kingdom and individual EEC countries. Such information about direct investment flows in 1973 is contained in the Department of Industry's Business Monitor Series M4 "Overseas Transactions 1973". Similar information on United Kingdom banks' foreign currency liabilities and claims up to end-September 1975 is given in Table 22 of the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin for December 1975. Table 20 of that Bulletin is also relevant.