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Mr. J. Wells
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were the overseas earnings of United Kingdom hire-purchase companies in the last convenient period.
Mr. Maudling
I have been asked to reply. Identified earnings from direct overseas investments in branches, subsidiaries and associates of hire-purchase finance companies amounted to about three quarters of a million pounds in 1959.