HC Deb 27 February 1958 vol 583 cc75-6W
Mr. Patrick Maitland

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what information, other than that included in its annual reports, is available to him from the Commonwealth Economic Committee showing the growth of population and income per head throughout the Commonwealth, and in Canada, the Union of South Africa, the Central African Federation, India, Pakistan, Australia and the dependent territories taken together, respectively, since the war over a convenient period.

Mr. Alport

The Committee's work is in the field of Commonwealth production, trade and consumption and not in that of population or national income statistics. Information of the kind requested is not therefore available in the regular and periodical reports of the Committee.

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