The amount paid for nationalisation was exactly:

• A. £2,600 million
• B. £2,500 million
• C. £2,800 million
• D. £2,700 million

Answer: (D)

When a government nationalises an industry, it pays compensation to private owners for transferring ownership into state control. This question looks at the total one-off amount the government paid to private owners across the industries nationalised in the postwar period. The material you’ve studied gives a precise figure for that total: £2,700 million. This sum reflects the value of the assets taken into public ownership and the liabilities the state assumed at the moment of nationalisation, not ongoing costs or subsidies. Other figures don’t align with the documented total in that period’s nationalisation records, so £2,700 million is the figure your course uses to represent the compensation paid.