Public Sector Borrowing Requirement

HC Deb 06 March 1981 vol 1000 c202W

Mr. Rippon

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the public sector borrowing requirement was in 1978–79.

Sir Geoffrey Howe

£9,199 million. Recent figures for the public sector borrowing requirement and its components are published inFinancial Statistics, table 2.5.