Balance of Payments (Hansard, 6 November 1996)

HC Deb 06 November 1996 vol 284 c587W 587W

§ Mr. Eric Clarke
To ask the President of the Board of Trade in which years since 1979 the UK recorded a surplus in the balance of payments current account. [550]

§ Mr. Lang
The current account was in surplus in each of the years between 1980 and 1985. In the second quarter of 1996 the current account was in surplus by the largest amount for over nine years.