HC Deb 08 March 1995 vol 256 c244W
31. Mr. Connarty

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the average proportion of post-tax profits paid as dividends in(a) the United Kingdom and (b) the OECD as a whole in the last year.

Mr. Jonathan Evans

United Kingdom dividends accounted for 62.1 per cent. of profit after tax, interest and depreciation in 1992. Comparable figures are not available for the OECD as a whole, and could he produced only at disproportionate cost.