Sir G. HAMILTONasked the Minister of Health how far the under-estimate of the true number of families in England and Wales in the Census of 1921, amounting to 400,000. as given in the last annual 275W report of the Ministry of Health, is likely to have been repeated in the 1931 Census I
Sir H. YOUNGThe figures indicate that the checks believed to have been imposed by the housing shortage upon the normal creation of new families up to 1921 had substantially been removed by the date of the 1931 Census.