§ MR. STAVELEY-HILL (Staffordshire, Kingswinford)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any information from German official sources, or from the Reports of British Consuls in Germany, as to the scarcity of workers there; and, if so, whether he will lay such information upon the Table of the House.
§ MR. CHURCHILLI have seen statements in the Reports of His Majesty's Consuls in Germany as to the shortage of labour in various industries during the recent period of trade expansion, but not any similar statements relating to the present time. The Consular Reports have already been laid on the Table of the House.