§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he can now state what progress has been made with the wage census, the result of which the Board of Trade expected to be able to publish at an earlier date; and when the Report, or any part of it, is likely to be laid before Parliament.
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) A very much larger number of returns has been received than was originally anticipated; and this gratifying fact has naturally caused a little delay in the final tabulation of the results. Considerable progress has, however, been made in the tabulation of the returns received. The Report on the Textile Trades is approaching completion, and it will I hope be issued about the end of the year Further reports will follow as rapidly as possible.