asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons, specifying men, women, boys, and girls, on the Devonport Employment Exchange during the months of February and March?

The following table shows the numbers on the registers of the Devonport Employment Exchange during February and March, 1926:

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he can give the figures of emigration from Great Britain to the United States of America for the years 1922 and 1923, and for the years 1924 and 1925; and any reasons for the decline during the latter period.

The British subjects recorded as leaving permanent residence in Great Britain to take up permanent residence in the United States numbered 34,826 in 1922 and 79,495 in 1923; the corresponding figures for 1924 and 1925 were 15,838 and 26,682. The decrease in 1924 and 1925 is, no doubt, mainly due to the operation of the United States Immigration Restriction Laws. The filling of the 1923–24 quota in the autumn of 1923, both increased the total recorded for 1923 and reduced that for 1924. Since 1st July, 1924, the numbers of emigrants to the United States have varied little from quarter to quarter.

asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs how many migrants have left this country for the Empire overseas during the first three months of 1926 and the numbers for the same three months of 1923, 1924 and 1925?

I have been asked to reply. The particulars for the first quarter of 1926 are not yet available. The number of British subjects recorded as leaving permanent residence in Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take up permanent residence in the British Empire overseas during the two months January and February, 1926, was 15,765. The corresponding figures for 1924 and 1925 were 13,952 and 14,084. The figure of 14,240 for January and February, 1923, covers the emigrants from Great Britain and the whole of Ireland.