asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he will specify the amounts received from other Departments of the Government, from the Dominions, and from foreign Governments, respectively, for supplies of naval stores during the current financial year, showing the heads of stores supplied, and stating those which were made in His Majesty's dockyards?

Information is not available in sufficient detail to enable a reply to be given to this question without undue expenditure of labour.

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether it will be possible to include in the next Navy Estimates a statement of the number and description of workmen at each of the dockyards at Home, as has been done in the case of naval yards abroad?

The hon. Member is under a misapprehension. The same information in respect of the numbers of workmen is already given in Navy Estimates about the Home Dockyards as about the yards abroad. The description of the workmen employed is not given for either, as the numbers in the various categories vary from time to time.

asked the Minister of Transport if he will ascertain from the London Traffic Advisory Committee details of increases of omnibus fares which have taken place on North London routes during the past three months, and the reasons for them?

I am informed that on certain omnibus services in North London the fares regarded as unremunerative have recently been raised so as to bring them to a general level of approximately 1d. a mile.

asked the Postmaster-General what is the amount of money spent in staffing the work of checking the work of checking deficient stamping of outgoing American and Imperial postcards and on printing and circulating explanations and reminders on the subject; and what, after allowing for this expense, would be the extra charge, if any, which would fall to be met from the reduction in these rates, pro rata, to the corresponding letter post?

I regret that I have no separate figures of the cost of checking short-paid postcards of Imperial and American destination as distinct from other short-paid correspondence, but in any case this cost would be materially less than the loss of revenue which would follow a reduction in the postcard rate from 1½d. to ld. The notices to the senders to which my Noble Friend refers were sent out for a short period only and involved no serious expense.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of houses in Scotland approved for subsidy between 1st July, 1926, and 28th February, 1928, under The Housing, etc., Act, 1923, and the estimated capital value of the subsidies for these houses; and the number of houses approved for subsidy between 1st July, 1926, and 28th February, 1928, under The Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1924, and the estimated yearly value of the subsidies for these houses?

During the period in question the number of houses approved for State subsidy was 5,768 under the Housing, etc., Act, 1923, and 20,609 under the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1924. The estimated capital value of the subsidies in each case was £434,000 and £3,230,000, respectively. In addition to the above, 3,479 houses were approved under Slum Clearance schemes during the above period. The subsidy payable in respect of these houses is 50 per cent. of the approved annual loss and is not yet ascertainable.

asked the Minister of Labour whether he can state how many insured persons have been refused benefit at the Walworth Road, Borough, Employment Exchange during the month of March, 1928, and the reason for the disallowances?

The following Table gives the information available:—Claims for Extended Unemployment Benefit considered by the Borough Local Employment Committee during the four weeks ended 12th March, 1928.