Captain BENNasked the Minister of Health (1) if the number of persons occupied in building and work of construction can be given from the Census Returns of 1921 in comparable form to those given for 1891, 1901, and 1911: if he will say what they are:
(2) if he can give from the Census Returns for England and Wales for 1921 the number of tenements of one, two, three, and four rooms, respectively, which were overcrowded, and the percentage of the total population occupying such tenements for each class of tenement?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINAs I informed the hon. and gallant Member in my replies of the 19th instant, the statistics of dwellings, rooms, and families will not be available for England and Wales as a whole until the county tabulations now in progress are completed, and this applies also to the occupational statistics referred to in the first question. It will not, however, in any event be possible to present the latter in a form comparable with those of the three preceding Censuses, which are not, indeed comparable as between themselves.