asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the amount by which domestic credit expanded in each of the years 1983 to 1986 and the increase in each year as a percentage of sterling M3 at the beginning of the year.

Statistics on domestic credit expansion were discontinued in June 1983. A note in the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin in that month explained why they were no longer relevant to the United Kingdom financial environment.