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Some of these loans were only paid off in the early 21st century. On 31 December 2006, Britain made a final payments of about $83m (£45.5m) to the US and about $23.6m to Canada. [10] By the end of World War II Britain had amassed an immense debt of £21 billion.
Distinct from both the national debt and the PSNCR is the interest that the government must pay to service the existing national debt. In 2012, the annual cost of servicing the public debt amounted to around £43bn, or roughly 3% of GDP. [11] By international standards, Britain enjoys very low borrowing costs.
At the start of the war, Britain had spent the money that it did have in normal payments for materiel under the "US cash-and-carry" scheme.Basing rights were also traded for equipment, e.g., the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, but by 1941 Britain was no longer able to finance cash payments and Lend-Lease was introduced.
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The addition of this borrowing to the government's totals increased the National Debt from £537 billion, or 37.7% of GDP to around 45%, [32] breaking the so-called Golden Rule which sets the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement threshold at below 40%. The figure is the equivalent of £3,000 additional borrowing for every family in Britain. [34]
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