asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the total amount of borrowing funded since May 1979, the total interest payable annually, the average rate of interest and the comparable average rate of interest in the financial year 1971–72.

The figures provided for total Government borrowings on marketable securities relate to financial years ending on March 31; the interest on funded Government borrowing paid is the total on all funded stocks during the financial years in question. These figures are published annually in the Consolidated Fund and National Loans Fund accounts and supplementary statements to those accounts. The average rate of interest is the average on the total funded borrowing outstanding on March 31 in each of the years stated.