Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 February 1948.
Sir Stafford Cripps
, Bristol East
12:00,
17 February 1948
Apart from indebtedness arising out of the 1914–18 war, the total due by His Majesty's Government was £1,059 millions on 31st December, 1947.