§ Viscount CASTLEREAGHasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can state why there has not yet been issued for this year the Statutory Return, National Debt, published last year as Paper Cd. 6798; and, seeing that that Paper, on pages, 2, 8, and 9 thereof, gave the National Debt existing at 31st March, 1913 as funded debt £593,453,857, estimated liability in respect of terminable annuities £31,519,908, unfunded debt £36,500,000, other capital liabilities £54,814,656, showing a total of £716,288,421, can he now 731W state the corresponding figures of each of the four items and of the total for 31st March, 1914; and, seeing that the net decrease of the gross liabilities of the State in respect of debt effected in the year ending 31st March, 1913 was, as stated on page 3 of that Paper, £8,518,007, can he now state what was the corresponding decrease of debt in the year ending 31st March, 1914?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe amounts of the liabilities in question were:—
— On 31st March, 1913. On 31st March, 1914. £ £ Funded Debt 593,453,857 586,717,872 Terminable Annuities 31,519,908 29,552,219 Unfunded Debt 36,500,000 35,000,000 Other Capital Liabilities 54,814,656 56,384,019 Total 716,288,421 707,654,110 Net Decrease 8,518,007 8,634,311