asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will give the nearest approximate estimate of the cost of the World War 1939–45, to this country and to each of the other countries concerned.

:The cost of the war is a phrase which may bear many different meanings. Some of these are incapable of being measured in money. The total issues for war expenditure in the United Kingdom out of the Vote of Credit and Defence Votes in the sir years from 3rd September, 1939, to 2nd September, 1945, was £25,000,000,000. I have, as yet, no similar estimates for other countries.