§ Mr. Jannerasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the Census of Production Reports, which have recently been made available, are largely useless to many of the industries concerned because the statistics included are three years or more out of date; and whether, in these circumstances, arrangements may be made either to abandon the census reports altogether, except for those industries which find them of use, or to publish the results more quickly, so that they will have some real value.
§ Sir D. EcclesInformation from the Census of Production is used by the Government, and to some extent by industry, in advance of publication, but I agree that results should be published earlier. Arrangements already made to this end include the ordering of an electronic computer for use in the Census Office, and the publication of preliminary results of each census at the end of the following year.