§ 4. Mr. T. WILLIAMSasked the Secretary of State for India, whether he will direct the Government of India to offer their co-operation to the proposed census of the unemployed in India to be carried out by unemployed graduates and undergraduates in the Punjab?
§ Sir S. HOAREThe matter is not one in which I should wish to interfere with the discretion of the Government of India.
§ Mr. WILLIAMSWould it not be advisable to ascertain whether they will co-operate? Does not the right hon. Gentleman think he might communicate with the Government of India and try to use his influence?
§ Sir S. HOAREI hesitate to trouble the Government of India with a number of inquiries about details which seem to me to come so much under their special purview. Of course, if the hon. Member presses me, I will try to obtain the information, but I should have thought it was just the kind of question we had better leave to the local administration.
§ Mr. WILLIAMSAs the question of Indian unemployment reflects itself in our own unemployment, ought we not to think at least sympathetically about the census figures?
§ Sir S. HOAREIf the hon. Member presses me, I will ask for further information.
§ Sir JOHN WARDLAW-MILNEIs it not a fact that there is really no basis 2155 for getting the figures of unemployment in India on the same lines as in this country?
§ Sir S. HOAREYes, that is so.