HC Deb 12 August 1966 vol 733 cc441-3W
Mr. Maurice Macmillan

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will estimate the separate amounts of Government investment, of private portfolio investment, of private direct investment, and of re-invested profits, invested in each year since 1955 in the overseas sterling area from other countries of the overseas sterling area;

(2) if he will estimate the separate amounts of Government investment, of private portfolio investment, of private direct investment, and of re-invested profits, invested in each year since 1955 in the overseas sterling area from the United Kingdom;

(3) if he will estimate the separate amounts of Government investment, of private portfolio investment, of private direct investment, and of re-invested profits, invested in each year since 1955 in the overseas sterling area from the United States of America and Canada;

(4) if he will estimate the separate amounts of Government investment, of private portfolio investment, of private direct investment, and of re-invested profits, invested in each year since 1955 in the overseas sterling area from Western Europe;

(5) if he will estimate the separate amounts of Government investment, of private portfolio investment, of private direct investment, and of re-invested profits, invested in each year since 1955 in the overseas sterling area from the non-sterling area, excluding the United States of America, Canada, and Western Europe;

(6) if he will estimate the amounts invested in each year since 1955 in the overseas sterling area by Russia;

(7) if he will estimate the amounts invested in each year since 1955 in the overseas sterling area by China;

(8) if he will estimate the amounts invested in each year since 1955 in the overseas sterling area by the eastern European countries, excluding Russia and China;

(9) if he will estimate the total amount of interest, profits and dividends paid out in each year since 1955 from the overseas sterling area countries to the United Kingdom;

(10) if he will estimate the total amount of interest, profits and dividends paid out in each year since 1955 from the overseas sterling area countries to the other countries of the overseas sterling area;

(11) if he will estimate the total amount of interest, profits and dividends paid out in each year since 1955 from the overseas sterling area countries to the United States of America and Canada;

(12) if he will estimate the total amount of interest, profits and dividends paid out in each year since 1955 from the overseas sterling area countries to Western Europe;

(13) if he will estimate the total amount of interest, profits and dividends paid out in each year since 1955 from the overseas sterling area countries to eastern European countries;

(14) if he will estimate the total amount of interest, profits and dividends paid out in each year since 1955 from the overseas sterling area countries to the non-sterling area as a whole.

Mr. Callaghan

No figures of transaction of the O.S.A. as a whole with countries other than the United Kingdom are available. Estimates of United Kingdom investment in, and interest, profits and dividends from, the overseas sterling area from 1958 are contained in the Central Statistical Office publication "United Kingdom Balance of Payments, 1965". Some information relating to transactions between some non-sterling area countries and some countries of the overseas sterling area will be found in the Yearbook of the International Monetary Fund.