§ Mr. Knoxasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1945 the national debt on a per capita and per family basis.
§ Mr. Robert SheldonFollowing is the table:
National debt per capita National debt per household £ £ 1945 455 — 1946 480 — 1947 518 — 1948 512 — 1949 500 — 1950 510 — 1951 513 1,741 1952 510 — 1953 512 — 1954 521 — 1955 526 — 1956 526 — 1957 523 — 1958 525 — 1959 525 — 1960 528 — 1961 533 1,704 1962 536 — 1963 555 — 1964 558 — 1965 558 — 1966 572 1,805 1967 580 — 1968 617 — 1969 611 — 1970 593 — 1971 600 1,796 1972 641 — 1973 658 — 1974 716 — 1975 818 — National debt per capita: Net total national debt outstanding at 31st March, in nominal terms, divided by mid-year estimates of total population of United Kingdom. The population figures used for 1974 and 1975 are projections from a 1973 base. Source: Annual Abstract of Statistics.
National debt per household: Net total national debt outstanding at 31st March, in nominal terms, divided by estimates of households as defined in the Census of Population and relating to census dates. Statistics of the number of families are not appropriate to use in this calculation and those for households are available only for census years. Source: Annual Abstract of Statistics and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.