HC Deb 24 December 1929 vol 233 c2117W
Mr. DAY

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can state the number of seamen employed in sea-going vessels registered in the United Kingdom as at the last convenient date, giving particulars as to the nationality of the seamen and the number of lascars?

Mr. W. GRAHAM

The number of seamen so employed on 31st March, 1928, was 200,113, of whom 15,291 were foreign (other than lascars) and 52,445 lascars (British subjects and foreigners).