§ Mr. Brooksasked the Minister of Labour the number of people employed in the following basic industries when this country went on to the Gold Standard in 1925 and came off the Gold Standard in 1931: agriculture, collieries, iron-stone mines, blast furnaces, steel producing plants, coke ovens and shipyards and the corresponding figures for 1936.
§ Mr. TomlinsonI am having a statement prepared summarising such information as is available, and will send it in due course to my hon. Friend.