asked the Minister of Health if without awaiting the full publication of the 1961 census, he will state the number of households it reveals to be without a bath, sharing a bath, without an inside toilet or without hot water, respectively.

These figures will appear in one of the first series of reports for local areas. It would not be practicable to produce them in advance

But as these figures are of such importance to millions of families, and as other figures have already been extracted and published in certain cases, should not this information be given priority?

No, Sir. The processing of all the statistical information arising from the census is in full spate at the moment. To take out one set of figures and produce them at an earlier stage than is proposed in the pattern would delay all the other figures.