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Mr. Hardy
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer by what proportion dividend distribution by companies increased between 1979 and 1989.
Mr. Lilley
The latest estimates of dividend payments on ordinary and preference shares may be obtained from the CSO databank—a collection of macro-economic time series in computer readable form to which the House of Commons Library has direct access. Data are currently available for the period up to third quarter 1989.