§ MR. LONSDALE (Armagh, Mid.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether it is in contemplation to take a compulsory industrial census of the United Kingdom, for the purpose of obtaining statistics of the home trade of the country and the freight earnings of the British mercantile marine; and, if so, when the Government intend to ask for legislative sanction to this proposal.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEThe matter is under consideration, but I am not at present able to add anything to my reply to the hon. Member for Newcastle-on-Tyne on the 1st instant.†