HC Deb 08 May 1922 vol 153 c1821W
Colonel GRETTON

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will furnish a statement showing all the industrial enterprises at home and abroad to which the British Government has contributed capital or for which it has guaranteed cither payment of interest, dividends, or capital, giving in each case the money advanced or invested and the commitments involved, and the annual payments received by the Government in each case in dividends, interest, or repayments?

Mr. YOUNG

I would refer the hon. Member to the Statement of Guarantees under the Trade Facilities Act (House of Commons Paper 62); to House of Commons Paper 250; and to the reply which I gave to the hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Allen Parkinson) on the 20th February last.

Captain BENN

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state, for each of the companies in which the Government are shareholders, what price was paid by the Government for their holdings?

Mr. YOUNG

I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to House of Commons Paper 250 of 10th November, 1921.