asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the net overseas and market borrowing of nationalised industries, including short-term borrowing and capital value of leased assets, in the current financial year to date.

Satisfactory information is not readily available except for complete financial years. Table 5.3 of "Financial Statistics" gives the contribution of public corporations—which includes other public corporations as well as the nationalised industries—to the public sector borrowing requirement. These figures correspond broadly to net borrowing from sources other than central Government but do not include the capital value of leased assets.