§ Mr. Ridleyasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will state the amount of national expenditure for the National Debt sinking fund in each year since 1921, including the present year?
§ Lieut.-Colonel ColvilleThe hon. Member will find particulars of sinking fund payments in each of the years up to 1935–36 in the National Debt Return (Command Paper 5271 of 1936). For the year 1936–37 the amounts were:
£ Issued from revenue for debt redemption … 13,127,270 Issued as old Sinking Fund of 1935–36 — 2,940,702 £16,067,972