§ MR. BYLESI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why were no figures, showing the emigration of aliens, given in the recently issued Report of the first year's working of the Aliens Act; is it intended to issue the Annual Report on emigration and immigration in continuation of similar previous Reports; whether representations as to the working of the Immigration Boards, set up by the Aliens Act, have been made to the Home Office by members of the boards themselves and by certain organisations; and why there is 77 no information on the subject in the Report of the first year's working of the Act.
§ MR. GLADSTONEMy hon. friend refers to two separate sets of statistics—those obtained last year for the first time under the Aliens Act of 1905, and those previously obtained under an Act re pealed in 1905, which had until last year been included in the Annual Report of the Board of Trade on Emigration and Immigration. On page 9 of the Report under the Aliens Act, which I have presented to Parliament, the matter of alien passenger traffic outwards from the United Kingdom is dealt with, and I would refer the hon. Member thereto. He will find that there are some figures. As to the Board of Trade's Report, I understand that it will be continued— subject to the omission of the information which is now to be given in the Report under the Aliens Act—and that the Volume for 1906 is in the press. As regards the last two paragraphs of the question, the Report under the Aliens Act is a Report made by the Inspector under the Act to me as head of the Home Department, and naturally does not treat of any representations which may have been made to me and dealt with by me in that capacity.