Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trinidad – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 April 1964.
Mr Donald Chapman
, Birmingham, Northfield
12:00,
28 April 1964
May we have an assurance that the original offer which was made at the very high rate of interest of 6 per cent. with an immediate repayment of capital and no period of moratorium, will at least be reconsidered? Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware of the pressure from both sides of the House in recent debates for the British Government, as has been recommended by several international bodies, to begin to offer loans at lower rates of interest and with a period before repayment of capital is demanded?