§ Mrs. Ann Taylorasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report the level of self-financing by business enterprises in each EEC country, the United States of America, Sweden and Japan from international sources of information available to him.
§ Mr. DeakinsI have been asked to reply.
I regret that it is not possible to provide figures on a comparable basis because of different accounting conventions in the 698W different countries. However, for the United Kingdom, information is given and discussed in the article "Structure of Company Finance" in the September 1975 issue of Economic Trends.