§ Mr. W. HIRSTasked the President of the Board of Trade what was the estimated population of England, Scotland, and Wales, and the approximate total consumption of bread, milk, meat, and coal for the period January to December, 1926?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERThe population of Great Britain in the middle of 1926 is estimated by the Registrars-General as 43,970,000. The quantity of milk consumed in liquid form is estimated at 850,000,000 gallons in round figures, and the quantity of meat, home produced and imported, at approximately 2,500,000 tons. In regard to bread, I am able to give only a very round estimated, as the proportion of the flour used that is made into bread is not known with any precision. The total is probably about 3,400,000 tons (1,900 millions of quartern loaves). The weight of coal consumed in the year may be estimated at about 130,000,000 tons, the precise figure being dependent on the unknown amount of coal obtained during the stoppage from outcrops, and not reported.