§ Mr. Gouldasked the Prime Minister if she will publish in the Official Report a table showing the ratio of Bank of England purchases of Treasury bills to the public sector borrowing requirement in each quarter since May 1979.
§ The Prime MinisterThe information requested can be calculated from the following sources: the quarterly PSBR can be found in table 2.5 of "Financial Statistics"; net purchases of Treasury Bills by the Bank of England can be found in table 8 of theBank of England Quarterly Bulletin; gross purchases of treasury bills by the bank are provided in table 10 of the BEQB for the period back to November 1981.