HC Deb 08 March 1923 vol 161 c758W
Sir J. LEIGH

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the cost of printing the tables in the 1921 Census Returns for the County of London in Government printing establishments as compared with the cost of similar tables in the 1911 Census Returns, which were printed by private firms?

Mr. BALDWIN:

The records for 1911 are no longer available, and I regret that I am consequently unable at present to furnish the required information with regard to the tables for that year. I may say, however, that owing to the change in the form of the. tables and to the different conditions now obtaining in the cost of labour and materials in the printing trade, there would in any case be no satisfactory basis of comparison between the cost of producing the 1911 and 1921 Census Returns.