Investments (Eec)

Mr. Skeet
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will start to collect figures for British portfolio, oil and miscellaneous investment in each of the Common Market States.

Mr. Robert Sheldon
The collection of figures of transactions with individual countries would impose a heavy form-filling burden on those who supply the statistics. However, alternative methods of estimating the United Kingdom's investment transactions with the EEC, taken as a whole, are being explored.