§ Mr. Holtasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will publish regional statistics covering production and retail sales.
§ Mr. ErrollRegional statistics are published in the reports on the Censuses of Production and Distribution; short period statistics cannot be provided for different regions, since many firms operating in more than one region do not give separate figures in their monthly or quarterly returns, and since the number of shopkeepers completing monthly returns of retail sales is insufficient as a basis for statistics of this kind.