§ EARL WINTERTONI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the admitted impossibility of making any accurate comparison between the statistics relating to unemployment in Great Britain and Germany, respectively, given in the Board of Trade Labour Gazette, he will cause the printing of such statistics to be discontinued in the next issue of the journal in question.
§ MR. CHURCHILLThough the official statistics of unemployment in the two countries are not comparable, each series of figures possesses a value as indicating changes of the state of the labour market. I think, therefore, that the figures ought to continue to be published, together with a warning against their misuse.