§ MR. STUART SAMUELI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the total number of adult male aliens over the age of sixteen resident in the United Kingdom according to the census returns.
§ * MR. AKERS-DOUGLASI cannot give the precise figures asked for without somewhat prolonged inquiry. Perhaps it will serve the hon. Member's purpose if I state the number of aliens over the age of fifteen as shown in the census tables. There were 139,724 male aliens of fifteen years and upwards resident in England and Wales in 1901, and 11,113 in Scotland. In Ireland, where the age classification adopted in the returns is different, the number would appear to be about 5,900.