§ 28. Mr. HILLSasked whether the President of the Board of Trade intends to continue, as part of the Census of Production, the triennial enumeration, for each county area separately, of persons employed in factories and workshops in the county, seeing that the local figures are of great importance for the local public health service?
Mr. BUXTONBy arrangement between the Home Office and the Board of Trade the Returns of the numbers of persons employed, which will be required in connection with the second Census of Production, will be made to serve the purposes of the separate Returns of persons employed hitherto collected by the Home Office. It is not proposed to publish figures for separate counties in the Reports on the Census of Production.
§ 29. Mr. C. BATHURSTasked what are now the six largest industries in the country in the order of their magnitude gauged by the number of hands employed therein respectively?
Mr. BUXTONAccording to the Census of 1901 the groups of occupations in which the largest number of persons were engaged in the United Kingdom were (in order)—agriculture, domestic service, conveyance of men, goods and messages, metal, engineering and shipbuilding, clothing, textiles, and building.
§ Mr. C. BATHURSTCan the right hon. Gentleman say when we will get the more recent figures in the last Census?