asked the Minister of Labour what local education authorities

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asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) the quantity and value of maize imported from the Soviet Union in 1932;(2) the quantity and value of oatmeal and rolled oats imported from Germany, the United States of America, and Canada; and the quantity and value of pearled barley imported from Germany and the Netherlands during the year 1932?

The following table shows the quantity and declared value of the undermentioned products imported into the United Kingdom and registered as consigned from the countries specified during the year 1932.do not conduct any courses of instruction for unemployed boys and girls, or receive such boys and girls in existing educational institutions as a condition for the receipt of unemployment benefit?

The list given below contains the names of the local education authorities who are not at the present date conducting courses of instruction for unemployed boys and girls or admitting such boys and girls to existing educational institution as a condition for the receipt of unemployment benefit. For the sake of completeness the list includes authorities for elementary education, though these can conduct courses only with the approval of the appropriate authorities for higher education.The inclusion of any authority's name in this list does not of itself imply any unwillingness on the part of the authority to provide a course of instruction, since in many areas the numbers of unemployed boys and girls are too few to justify the establishment of any course, and in certain cases arrangements have been made for unemployed boys and girls to attend courses in the areas of neighbouring authorities.

asked the Minister of Labour the number of Government instructional factories under his control where instruction is being given in cabinet-making, french polishing, cabinet machinery, upholstery, or other sections of the furniture industry; the number now in training in each factory for each section; the periods of instruction given and the total trained since the inception of the scheme; if the products of the trainees are prepared for the ordinary commercial market; and the number of trainees placed in ordinary employment, together with the wage rates, if any, insisted upon those responsible for placing such trainees in employment?

Instruction of this kind is given at seven Government training centres. The number of men in training on 30th January, was—cabinet making, 160; french polishing, 69; upholstery, 84; and wood-machining, 53.