§ MR. HOWARD (Middlesex, Tottenham)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the statement in The Labour Gazette of December, that as concerns the numbers of the Trade Societies making Returns, the proportion of the unemployed has slightly fallen, and at the end of the month (November), for the first time during the year, this proportion was lower than at the corresponding period of 1892; and whether this remark applies to the whole country?
§ * MR. MUNDELLAYes, Sir. I am informed that it does so apply for the Trade Societies making Returns.