§ Lord APSLEYasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state, by Colonies or Mandated Territories, the entire loan indebtedness of all the overseas territories coming under his jurisdiction; and the amounts of such loan indebtedness which in the aggregate have been incurred in each of the last 10 years?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERThe following statement shows the total loan indebtedness of the Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories mentioned below:
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Colony, etc. Total Loan Indebtedness. £ Bahamas 180,000 Barbados 605,000 Bermuda 126,636 British Guiana 3,996,817 British Honduras 394,552 Ceylon 15,733,468 Cyprus 766,513 Falkland Islands nil Fiji 1,016,408 Gambia 5,709 Gibraltar nil Gold Coast 13,034,152 Hong Kong 2,040,440 Jamaica 5,858,106 Turks and Caicos Islands 1,500 Kenya 16,900,000 Leeward Islands: Antigua 154,210 Dominica 73,099 Montserrat 19,115 St. Christopher and Nevis 86,578 Virgin Islands nil
Colony, etc. Total Loan Indebtedness. £ Federated Malay States … 11,221,666 Johore … nil. Kedah … nil. Kelantan … 572,168 Perlis … nil. Trengganu … 373,333 Brunei … 46,083 Mauritius … 3,396,994 Nigeria … 28,350,582 Northern Rhodesia … 1,375,000 Nyasaland Protectorate … 3,107,234 Palestine … 4,475,000 St. Helena … 640 Seychelles … nil. Sierra Leone … 2,466,253 Somaliland Protectorate … 209,000 Straits Settlements … 8,672,020 Tanganyika Territory … 8,613,477 Trinidad … 2,899,085 Uganda Protectorate … 2,000,000 Windward Islands: Grenada … 192,972 St. Lucia … 167,968 St. Vincent … 73,515 Zanzibar Protectorate … nil. The aggregate amounts of such indebtedness which have been incurred in each of the last 10 years are, so far as information is available, as follow:
1923 … … … 7,859,948 1924 … … … 881,500 1925 … … … 5,437,000 1926 … … … 572,691 1927 … … … 14,555,004 1928 … … … 6,918,165 1929 … … … 2,893,012 1930 … … … 7,673,912 1931 … … … 6,772,562 1932 … … … 8,001,380