HC Deb 07 February 1949 vol 461 c18W
Mr. Ellis Smith

asked the Economic Secretary to the Treasury if he will give in tabular form the total profits made by companies showing returns, the amounts put to reserve and the amounts paid in debenture; and the total wages paid for the years 1938, 1945, 1947 and 1948, respectively.

Mr. Jay

Estimates of the total wages paid in the years 1938, 1945, and 1947 are given in the Annual Abstract of Statistics, 1937–47 (table 253); much of the other information asked for, although not at present available, will be shown in the next White Paper on National Income and Expenditure.

Mr. Ellis Smith

asked the Economic Secretary to the Treasury if he will give in tabular form as much information as possible to enable a measurement to be made of the percentage of the national income distributed in the form of wages, salaries and profits, respectively, in the years 1939, 1946 and on the latest possible date.

Mr. Jay

The information asked for is already available in tabular form in the Annual Abstract of Statistics, 1937–47 (table 253).