asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a statement showing the dollar expenditure and earnings of each Colony, Protectorate and Trust Territory.

I propose in the next Balance of Payments White Paper to give figures of the net gold and dollar balance of the Colonies as a whole for the first half of this year. There are technical difficulties in the way of giving more detailed information and it will not be possible to give figures for each individual Colony. But I am examining whether the available information can be presented in any more detailed way.