HC Deb 13 April 1945 vol 409 c2115W
Mr. Daģģar

asked the President of the Board of Trade the value and volume of a normal year's output in Great Britain of consumers' goods and producers' goods, respectively.

Mr. Dalton

None of the war years can, of course, be described as normal, but in 1938, the last complete pre-war year, personal expenditure on consumption at market prices was estimated, in the White Paper on National Income and Expenditure in the Years 1938 to 1943 (Cmd. 6520), at £4,072,000,000 and net private investment at home as £305,000,000.