§ MR. GRETTON (Rutland)To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can state at what date are the Returns to be made in connection with the contemplated census of production; if all the forms to be filled in by traders and producers have been issued; and, if not, at what date will the remaining forms be ready for issue.
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) As provided in the Census of Production Act, persons receiving schedules are given a period of three months after the issue of each schedule within which to make returns. The schedules are being issued as rapidly as possible. The schedules for coal mines and the majority of those for factories, builders, and contractors have already been issued and the remainder will be issued very shortly. The issue of the schedules appropriate to workshops, which will be in a somewhat simpler form, will then be proceeded with at once.