§ Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the assets of each of the trade unions representing the sheltered industries of the country at the end of 1929 and at the end of 1928?
§ Miss BONDFIELDInformation as to the funds of each registered trade union at the end of 1928 is published in Part 4 of the Report of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies for the year 1929. Corresponding figures for 1929 are not yet available. I am afraid it would be impracticable to classify the large number of trade unions referred to in this report in such a way as to separate those representing sheltered industries from those representing non-sheltered industries, if only for the reason that the membership of many important trade unions is distributed over a considerable number of industries.