HC Deb 04 June 1998 vol 313 cc327-8W
Mr. Gill

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if the statistics produced by the International Monetary Fund for the purposes of measuring the ratio of debt to Gross Domestic Product are on the same basis for each EU country. [43871]

Mrs. Liddell

The International Monetary Fund published the ratio of government debt to GDP for EU countries in their May 1998 World Economic Outlook. The outturn data were from national sources and the IMF noted they were not in all cases based on the same definition.

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