§ Mr. HINDSasked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the recommendation of the Welsh Insurance Commissioners that all official statistics dealing with population, employment, and health should be prepared for Wales, including Monmouthshire, as a separate unit; and whether he will give instructions that in his Department this course be invariably followed, in accordance with the present practice of the Insurance Commissioners, the Board of Education, and the Board of Agriculture?
Mr. BUXTONI am aware of the recommendation of the Welsh Insurance Commissioners in this matter, and the question has recently been carefully considered in my Department. In some instances statistics published by the Board of Trade already show the figures for Wales and Monmouthshire separately from those for England; but the rigid observance of a fixed rule as to the classification of statistical and other data by areas is not practicable, as the circumstances affecting the classification are not the same in all cases.