MR. HERBERT ROBERTSI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he can state when the Memorandum of the comparative statistics of population, industry, and commerce in the United Kingdom and some leading foreign countries, prepared by the Board of Trade for 1903, will be issued to Members.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralThe Memorandum in question is not an annual publication, and it would not be advisable to prepare a Memorandum in continuation thereof during the present year.