§ Sir W. BRASSasked the President of the Board of Trade the approximate net total emigration figures from this country in 1912, 1913, 1927, 1928, and 1929, respectively?
§ Mr. W. R. SMITHThe numbers of British subjects who left the United Kingdom for countries out of Europe exceeded those who arrived from such countries in the years specified to the extent shown in the following table. Persons leaving or arriving as members of the crews of the vessels in which they travelled are not included. Comparable figures relating to emigrants only are not available for all the years specified in the question.
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1912 268,485 1913 241,977 1927 103,603 1928 82,830 1929 92,537 The figures for 1912 and 1913 are inclusive of passengers leaving or arriving at ports in Southern Ireland. The corresponding figures for these ports alone in the later years were: 17,346 in 1927, 15,363 in 1928 and 11,170 in 1929.