§ Viscount SANDONasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has any statistics to show the number of foreign seamen employed on British ships?
§ Sir B. CHADWICKInformation as to the number of alien seamen employed in ships of the British mercantile marine was contained in answers given to the Noble Lord the Member for Southampton (Lord Apsley) on the 17th December, 1924, and 27th February, 1925, copies of which I am sending to my Noble Friend, together with the figures for the first nine months of this year.
NUMBERS AND PERCENTAGES of engagements of British and Foreign Seamen at Mercantile Marine Offices in the United Kingdom for the first nine months of 1925. — Number. Percentage. British other than Asiatics and Africans. 390,801 94.57 Foreigners other than Asiatics and Africans. 10,406 2.52 Asiatics and Africans (British and Foreign). 12,037 2.91 Total 413,253 100.00