§ Mr. DUCKWORTHasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of bondholders or organisations holding the National Debt of the country?
§ Mr. McNEILLI regret that the information asked for is not available. The number of stock accounts, excluding savings certificates and ordinary deposits in the Post Office and Trustee Savings Banks, is 5,150,000, but one account may be in the name of many holders and, conversely, a holder may have more than one account. In the second Annual Report of the National War Savings Committee (Command Paper 9112) it was esti- 1393W mated that at the end of the year 1917 Government Securities had been distributed amongst 16,000,000 people, including 10,000,000 holders of Savings Certificates.