§ 9. Mr. NEWBOLDasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will arrange for the publication by his Department, either monthly or quarterly, of statistics showing the investment of British capital in the industrial and commercial undertakings and Government and municipal loans of Germany, Austria, and the other succession States, as well as in Poland and the Baltic States, such statistics to show not only the total so placed but the amount for each industry and type of private or public undertaking?
§ Viscount WOLMERI am not in possession of the data necessary for the preparation of the very complicated statistics for which the hon. Member asks.
§ Mr. NEWBOLDWould it not he possible that the data should be obtained, seeing that it is so necessary?
§ Viscount WOLMEROnly at enormous expense.
§ Mr. NEWBOLDCould you not cut it out of something else?