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Public Sector Borrowing (Cover Costs)

Volume 898: debated on Monday 20 October 1975

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asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide figures showing the costs in each year of Her Majesty's Treasury's exchange cover scheme for currencies borrowed by public sector bodies between February 1969 and September 1975.

£ million (not seasonally adjusted)
Public sector borrowing requirementFinanced byDirect external finance of the public sector
Borrowing from the non-bank private sectorBorrowing from the banking sector
Take-up notes and coinsSales of debtIn sterlingIn foreign currencies
1974–75 financial
year7,956*8744,2951271,106†1,554
* Of which 2,163 is contributed by borrowing by local authorities from other sources and 1,131 by borrowing by central government for on-lending to local authorities.
† This element essentially represents overseas borrowing by the public sector channelled through the banking system.

Source: Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin—September 1975.