Central Bank Assistance

HC Deb 10 July 1968 vol 768 cc94-5W

Mr. Speed

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the maximum total of Central Bank assistance received by the United Kingdom in 1963; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

£89 million, as was published in the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin for June, 1963.

Mr. Speed

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the maximum total of Central Bank assistance received by the United Kingdom in 1961; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

Approximately £325 million, as was published in the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin for September, 1961.

Mr. Speed

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the amounts borrowed and repaid to the Central Banks in each calendar quarter from the fourth quarter of 1964 to the first quarter in 1968 in the form in which they were published before October, 1964.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

I cannot at this stage add to the information on this subject which has already been published in the quarterly articles in Economic Trends and in the Quarterly Bulletins of the Bank of England.