HC Deb 07 February 1975 vol 885 c648W
Mr. Tebbit

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the overseas borrowings of the nationalised industries for which he is responsible in each of the last 10 years, together with the value of their exports and the value of their imports of capital goods and services.

Mr. Mulley

Overseas borrowings were as follows:

British Railways Board National Freight Corporation
£m. £m.
1965–70 Nil Nil
1971 20 Nil
1972 8 Nil
1973 4 1.2
1974 Nil 5.5

Estimated values of exports by the British Railways Board were as follows:

£ millions
1965–69 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
nil 0.6 2.8 3.3 1.0 4.4

The other figures requested are not readily available.

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