§ 27. Sir C. Edwardsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total number of persons of Polish nationality in this country; the number of those working and maintaining themselves; the number of those who are idle; how many of those who are idle are living near Chester; and why they are not either sent home or compelled to work.
§ Mr. EdeExcluding temporary visitors and children under 16, there are in all about 156,000 persons of Polish nationality in this country. This total includes about 9,000 Poles who are capable of work but are not actually working or training for employment. About 1,800 of the 9,000 are housed in Cheshire. Every effort is being made to place in useful work, either in this country or abroad, those Poles who have not yet been resettled, and any who desire to go back to Poland are encouraged to do so.