HC Deb 27 November 1969 vol 792 cc115-6W
Mr. Pardoe

asked the Minister of Overseas Development if she will estimate what percentage of the United Kingdom gross national product will be devoted to the official flow to underdeveloped countries in 1970; and what percentage of the gross national product will go in the private flow in the form of private investment.

Mrs. Hart

Forecasts of gross national product are not available but if the G.N.P. continues to rise at broadly the same rate as in recent years, the percentage would be about 0.4. No firm forecast of the flow of private investment can be made, but it is estimated that in 1968 net private investment was 0.18 per cent. of G.N.P. out of a total private flows of 0.33 per cent.