Cost of Living (Working Classes).

HC Deb 11 May 1914 vol 62 cc740-1W

Mr. CROFT

asked the President of the Board of Trade when a Return will be published containing all the available information on the subject of the movement of money wages in the period 1900–12 in the countries enumerated in the table given on page 1xii. of the Report on the Cost of Living of the Working Classes in the-United Kingdom [Cd. 6955]?

Mr. BURNS

It is intended to include information as to the course of wages in certain foreign countries and British Possessions in a Report on Wages which will be issued by the Board of Trade in the course of the present year.