HC Deb 06 December 1939 vol 355 c685W
Mr. Craven-Ellis

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will arrange for all short-term money borrowed by the Government as Treasury bills being created by the issue department of the Bank of England and lent to the Government free of interest, failing the reduction by the monied interests of the present high rates of Treasury bills?

Captain Crookshank

No, Sir.