asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give the value of imported foodstuffs in 1913, compared to the values in 1924 and 1925 at 1913 prices?

The following statement gives the information desired as far as particulars are available:

Imports of Food, Drink and Tobacco
Period	Declared Values.(a)	Values estimated at average values of 1913
January-December:	Thou.£	Thou.£
1913	295,150	295,150
1924	572,869	370,762
January-March:
1913	66,247	66,247
1924	130,541	88,378
1925	143,613	91,170

(a) The figures for 1913 relate to imports into Great Britain and Ireland; those for 1924 and 1925 relate to Great Britain and Northern Ireland only and include imports consigned from the Irish Free StateAccording to statistics issued by the Irish Free State Government, the exports and imports of food, drink and tobacco to and from Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the year 1924, and the first three months of 1924 respectively, were as follows. Particulars for the first three months of 1925 are not yet available:

—	Declared Value,
	£
	Exports to Great Britain and Northern Ireland:
Year 1924	41,385,000
First 3 months of 1924	9,128,000
	Imports from Great Britain and Northern Ireland:
Year 1924	19,922,000
First 3 months of 1924	5163,000

The Imports into the Irish Free State from countries other than Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the same periods were:

Year 1924		9,600,000
First 3 months of 1924		1,686,000

asked the. President of the Board of Trade whether he can give the quantitative imports into Brazil from the United States of America and Great Britain in 1913 and 1924 of chinaware and earthenware, cement, iron and steel manufactures, piece goods of all kinds, and coal; and whether he can give the percentage of values of Brazil imports for 1913 and 1924 from the two countries?

The official detailed Returns relating to the import trade of Brazil for 1924 will probably not be issued for a considerable time.; and I regret that, meanwhile, I am unable to give the information desired by my hon. and gallant Friend

asked the Minister of Health how many houses have been erected under the various Housing Acts since 1919 in agricultural areas for the use of agricultural labourers; how many are tenanted by labourers, and what is the average rent paid per week; and will he give the districts where houses have been erected that are tenanted by agricultural labourers?

Statistics are not available which would enable me to give the exact information desired by the hon. Member. Since 1919 over 71,400 houses have been built in rural districts under the Housing Acts, and according to half-yearly returns furnished by local authorities it is estimated that a further 43,000 houses were completed in rural districts during the two years ended the 30th September last by private enterprise without State subsidy. I cannot say how many of these houses are tenanted by agricultural labourers or what are the weekly rents. I may, however, refer the lion. Member to a statement of rents proposed to be charged in certain rural districts which has been specially obtained, and is being included in the OFFICIAL REPORT, in reply to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes

asked the Minister of Health whether he is still receiving applications for subsidies under the uniform housing proposals of 1923; and how many such proposals have been received since the beginning of the year?

The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. Since the 1st January last, 544 local authorities have made application for approval of 23,811 houses under the Housing, Etc., Act, 1923–4,159 to be erected by the local authorities themselves, and 19,652 by private enterprise

asked the Minister of Health if be can state how many of the 333,000 persons included in the recent statement issued by his Department as being persons insured against unemployment and wives and dependent children of such insured persons who were in receipt of domiciliary Poor Law relief in December last were insured persons; how many were dependants; and how many were at the time in receipt of unemployment insurance benefit?

Returns furnished to the Department show that 82,000 men, 79,000 women and 172,000 children were included in the total of 333,000, but the returns do not show how many of that number were insured and how many were dependants, or haw many of them were at the same time in receipt of both unemployment benefit and Poor Law relief

asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider the issue of regulations forbidding aliens who have not contributed to the National Unemployment Insurance Fund drawing payments from that fund'?

As stated in reply to the hon. Member for Taunton (Lieut.-Colonel Gault) on Wednesday, no alien who has not contributed to the Unemployment Insurance scheme is entitled to benefit unless he be a disabled ex-service man whose disability is the reason of his failure to have contributed

asked the Minister of Labour the number of bricklayers in London in receipt of unemployment benefit in each month from August, 1924, to date?

The following Table shows the number of bricklayers in the Greater London area who had claims to benefit current at the end' of each month since August, 1924:

End of Month				Number of Claims current
1924:—
August	…	…	…	381
September	…	…	…	105
October	…	…	…	78
November	…	…	…	130
December	…	…	…	127
1925:—
January	…	…	…	153
February	…	…	…	162
March	…	…	…	144

The numbers actually in receipt of benefit would be somewhat less than these figures, but particulars on this point are not available