MR. DUNDAS WHITE (Dumbartonshire)To ask the President of the Board of Trade what are the estimated numbers in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, respectively, of each of the following classes of persons: men over twenty-one years of age who are Parliamentary voters, men over twenty-one years of age who are not Parliamentary voters, and women over twenty-one years of age.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I beg to answer this Question on behalf of my right hon. friend. I fear that the materials for giving the precise information asked for do not exist. The Table which follows is the nearest approach to it that I am able to make, but any calculation based on a subtraction of the figures in column 1 from those in column 2 would be vitiated by the fact that there are no means of estimating how many plural voters are included in column 1. 1083 It is supposed that they may number about 784,000 in all, but this figure is
| Number of names appearing on the registers of parliamentary voters for 1908. | Estimated male adult population on 1st January, 1908 | Estimated female adult population on 1st January, 1908. | |
| England and Wales | 6,058,894 | 9,230,289 | 10,327,469 |
| Scotland | 762,861 | 1,233,893 | 1,377,241 |
| Ireland | 692,726 | 1,207,524 | 1,267,794 |
| Total | 7,514,481 | 11,671,706 | 12,972,504 |