§ Mr. Juddasked the Minister of Overseas Development if he will set out in the OFFICIAL REPORT the latest estimate for the United Kingdom progress towards the 1 per cent. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 148W target for the year 1968, broken down into gross official flows, repayments of capital, commercial credit, and private investment, expressing each as a percentage of the latest estimate for gross national product at market prices; and if he will provide the figure for receipts of interest on aid loans during 1968.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe figures I gave to my hon. Friend on 2nd May [Vol. 783, c. 6–8] are the best available and I confirm as final figures the provisional estimates there for official flows including interest on aid loans.
These figures represent the following percentages of gross national product:
% G.N.P. Gross Official Flows 0.49 Amortisation -0.07 Total Official Flows (net of Amortisation) 0.42 Private Investment (net of disinvestment) 0.22 Guaranteed Private Export Credits (net) 0.19 Total Private Flows Net 0.41 Total Official and Private Flows (net) 0.83