Current account deficit
O’Kennedy requested half-year current-account deficits for 1980–85 and their share of full-year deficits for 1980–84; Dukes said he would circulate a table, and Question Time concluded.
asked the Minister for Finance the deficit on current account for the revenue returns for the first half year in each of the years 1980 to 1985, inclusive; and the proportion each such half year deficit represented of the full year deficit in the years 1980 to 1984, inclusive.
Comment on this
As the answer is in the form of a tabular statement, I propose to circulate it in the Official Report.
The following is the statement: