§ Mr. HOGGEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can state the present amount of the National Debt, indicating the different descriptions, with the rates of interest payable and the dates of redemption?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINParticulars of the debt as at 31st March, 1919, are given. in the annual Finance Accounts (House of Commons, 121), page 73, and the following.
The approximate debt outstanding o[...] 30th November, 1919, was as follows:—
£ Funded Debt (2½ Consols, etc.) 315,000,000 Terminable Annuities 20,000,000 3½per cent. War Loan, 1925–28 62,700,000 4½ per cent. War Loan,1925–45 13,000,000 5 per cent War Loan, 1929–47 1,991,300,000 4 per cent. War Loan, 1929–42 62,300,000 4 per cent. Funding Loan, 1960–90✶ 409,100,000 4 per cent. Victory Bonds, 1975✶ 359,500,000 Exchequer Bonds, 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1930 323,300,000 4 per cent, and 5 per cent. National War Bonds, 1922,1.923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928,1929 1,508,800,000 Treasury Bills 1,089,100,000 Ways and Means Advances 209,600,000 War Savings Certificates(at 15s. 6d.) 265,300,000 Other Debt Anglo-French Loan in 1,296,500,000 America, 1920 51,400,000 £7,976,900,000 *Including installments not yet paid up.