3. Major BARNESasked the President of the Board of Trade what is the amount of capital registered as invested in the industries named in the first Section of the Financial Resolution governing the Key Industries Bill; and what has been the annual return on such capital during -the period for 1914 to 1921?
§ Sir P. LLOYD-GREAMEI regret I am unable to furnish the information desired by the hon. Member owing to the fact that a large number of the companies, with registered capital, producing goods specified in the first of the Ways and Means Resolutions are, at the same time, engaged in the manufacture of other products which in many cases constitute the main branches of their activities. Is is therefore impossible to say what proportion of their capital is devoted to the manufacture of key industry products.
56. Major BARNESasked the Minister of Labour what is the number of people 742 employed in the industries named in the first Section of the Financial Resolution governing the Key Industries Bill; and what is the amount of wages paid per week to them?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)I am afraid information is not available as to the total number of workpeople engaged in the manufacture of the articles named in the Resolution referred to, nor as to the amount of wages paid to such workpeople.