§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing the latest total of national debt and annual interest payments, respectively; and if he will express these totals as an amount per average family in Great Britain.
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§ Mr. Brittan[pursuant to his reply, 9 July 1981]: The provisional figure for total national debt as at 31 March 1981 is £112,780 million. Details of this are given in supplementary table E of the May 1981 edition of Financial Statistics (No. 229), a copy of which is available in the Library. The annual interest paid during the year ending 31 March 1981 was £9,733 million.
The 1981 estimated figure for the number of households in Great Britain as published in Social Trends No. 11 Table 2.5, a copy of which is available in the Library, is 20.1 million. The above totals expressed as an amount per household are £5,610.95 and £484.23 respectively.