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Mr. Tebbit
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the overseas borrowings of the nationalised industries for which he is responsible in each of the last 10 years, together with the value of their exports and the value of their imports of capital goods and services.
Mr. Mulley
Overseas borrowings were as follows:
| British Railways Board | National Freight Corporation | |
| £m. | £m. | |
| 1965–70 | Nil | Nil |
| 1971 | 20 | Nil |
| 1972 | 8 | Nil |
| 1973 | 4 | 1·2 |
| 1974 | Nil | 5·5 |
| £ millions | |||||
| 1965–69 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 |
| nil | 0·6 | 2·8 | 3·3 | 1·0 | 4·4 |