§ 76. Mr. Lewisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the total estimated cost to Great Britain of the 39W recent Suez War, taking into account the actual cost of military operations, the loss of the arms and equipment at the Suez Base, the loss of the Suez Canal; and, using as the basis the total revenue received by Great Britain in the year preceding the Suez War as a result of imports and exports between Great Britain and Egypt, what has been the estimated loss to British trade, to date, due to the severance of trade with Egypt.
Mr. AmoryThe net extra expenditure incurred by the Service Departments on special measures taken in connection with the Suez Emergency was estimated in their Appropriation Accounts as some £25 million. The value of the Suez Base installations and the stores contained in it was estimated at some £60 million, though this was in no sense a realisable value in conditions of a forced sale. It is not possible to draw up any balance sheet of the cost of the Suez operations to the United Kingdom in the absence of knowledge of what would otherwise have happened.