§ Mr. Colegateasked the President of the Board of Trade, in what circumstances permission was given to the Chief Statistician of his Department to reveal to the Royal Statistical Society the main results of the Census of Production inquiry of 1939, into control of businesses, before any Report of this inquiry had been laid before Parliament.
§ Mr. DaltonThe main figures of the 1935 Census of Production have already been presented to Parliament. The paper to which my hon. Friend refers was a statistical analysis based on supplementary information voluntary furnished to the Board of Trade four years later. No Census of Production was taken for 1939. I am arranging for copies of the paper to be placed in the Library of the House.