HC Deb 02 November 1932 vol 269 cc1790-1W
Lord APSLEY

asked 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-LISTER

The following statement shows the total loan indebtedness of the Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories mentioned below:

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