§ 55. Mr. Birchasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he will be in a position to publish up-to-date statistics of local government borrowing, showing, in particular, what sums are borrowed for very short periods.
§ Mr. BarberA survey is now in progress of the composition and term of local government loan debt in 1959, but all the returns have not yet come in, and I am afraid that I cannot say when the result will be published.