The Nationalisation compensation total was:

• A. £2,000 million
• B. £3,000 million
• C. £2,700 million
• D. £2,600 million

Answer: (C)

When a government nationalises industries, it must compensate the private owners for the loss of their property. In Britain after World War II, the Labour government nationalised key sectors—coal, railways, electricity and gas, and later steel—and paid out compensation to the owners of these assets. If you add up all those payments across the industries involved, the total comes to about £2,700 million. That figure shows the scale of the financial cost tied to bringing major parts of the economy under public ownership. The other options don’t match this overall total most historians cite for the compensation across all nationalised industries.