§ Mr. O. LEWISasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the gross tonnage of British shipping laid up on 1st June, 1929, and on the latest date for which the figures are available?
§ Mr. W. GRAHAMThe nearest available figures in 1929 to that asked for are 233,000 and 377,000 tons net, being the tonnage of British vessels reported to the Chamber of Shipping as laid-up in ports of Great Britain and Ireland on 1st April and 1st July, 1929, respectively; these figures roughly correspond to 375,000 and 600,000 tons gross, respectively. The latest figure available of the gross tonnage of British ships laid up in Great Britain and Ireland is 3,070,800 tons for vessels of 100 tons gross and upwards on 1st April, 1931.