HC Deb 22 April 1977 vol 930 cc185-6W
Mr. Wrigglesworth

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what value of foreign currency bonds offered by the Government has been taken up by official overseas holders of sterling.

Mr. Robert Sheldon

Applications for the bonds amounted in total to a sterling equivalent of £395.3 million, and were allotted in full as follows:

Session 1975–76 (Cmnd. 6678), programme analysis and review studies are internal to the Government, and the reports are part of the confidential advice given by officials to Ministers. For this reason it has been the policy of successive Governments not to disclose or identify such reviews publicly.

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