Balance of Payments Flows

HC Deb 08 February 1980 vol 978 c379W

Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will circulate in the Official Report a table showing for 1976–77, 1977–78 and 1978–79, the balance of payments flows by sectors as set out in table C of the appendix to Government Economic Service Working Paper No. 5 on balance of payments flows and monetary aggregates in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Lawson

This information could only be provided at the cost of disproportionate time and effort.

As is explained in a reply to another recent question from the hon. Member, the possibility of introducing a table in Financial Statistics which relates balance of payments flows to the monetary aggregates is being explored.