§ Mr. BLACKasked the Minister of Health the number of apprentices he expects to be admitted to the bricklaying, slating and plastering trades during the next three years; and what will be the usual amount of reduction in the number of workers employed in the same period in the same trades owing to death, disablement, retirement through old age, and other causes?
§ Mr. WHEATLEYThe particular figures for which the hon. Member asks are difficult to estimate, but I may refer him generally to the figures and estimates given in the Report of the National House Building Committee.