HC Deb 23 September 1909 vol 11 cc587-8

Return ordered "for the United Kingdom for each of the years 1831, 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1906, 1907, and 1908, showing the following particulars as far as available: (1) Population (millions); (2) death rate per thousand; (3) birth rate per thousand; (4) paupers, total average number, indoor and outdoor; (5) number of paupers per 10,000 of the population; (6) total cost of poor relief; (7) net passenger movement outwards to places out of Europe; (8) average 'Gazette' price per quarter of wheat, barley, and oats; (9) average price of beef at the Metropolitan Cattle Market; (10) total value of the imports of grain, corn, and flour; (11) total value of the imports of meat, alive and dead; (12) total value of the imports of food and drink (exclusive of tobacco); (13) total value of the imports of food and drink (exclusive of tobacco) from British Colonies and possessions; (14) total value of the imports of food and drink (exclusive of tobacco) per head of population; (15) total quantity of home-grown and imported wheat and wheat-flour retained for home consumption; (16) consumption of wheat and wheat-flour per head of population; (17) value of fish of British taking landed on the coasts of the United Kingdom; (18) net imports of merchandise (deducting re-exports), total value and value per head of population; (19) exports of the produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom, total value and value per head of population; (20) imports of bullion and specie; (21) exports of bullion and specie; (22) Income Tax, yield of each penny; (23) gross income brought under Income Tax; (24) amount standing to credit of depositors in Post Office and Trustee Savings Banks; (25) consumption of pig-iron per head of population; (26) total registered tonnage of British shipping; (27) tonnage of British shipping entered and cleared in the foreign trade at ports in the United Kingdom; (28) tonnage of foreign shipping entered and cleared in the foreign trade at ports in the United Kingdom; and (29) total clearings at the London Bankers' Clearing House (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper No. 294 of Session 1907)."—[Mr. Essex.]