§ Mr. CHIOZZA MONEYasked the President of the Local Government Board what was the estimated excess of births over deaths in the United Kingdom in 1910; and what was the number of British emigrants from the United Kingdom in that year?
§ The PRESIDENT of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. Burns)The excess of registered births over deaths in the United Kingdom during the 255 year 1910 amounted approximately to 492,000. According to a return published by the Board of Trade, the number of British subjects who left ports in the United Kingdom for countries out of Europe during the year referred to exceeded the number who arrived from such countries by about 234,000.
§ Mr. CHIOZZA MONEYIs it not a fact that in the month of April the excess was as many as 41,000, or nearly as much as the whole increase of births over deaths?
§ Mr. BURNSThe hon. Member will see in to-day's paper for himself the extraordinarily large increase of emigration there is in the first four months of this year as compared with 1910.
§ Mr. CHIOZZA MONEYWill the right hon. Gentleman bring this very serious question to the notice of the Cabinet?