asked the President of the Board of Trade the increase, if any,

For reasons which I have explained to my hon. Friend, the precise information for which he asks in the first and third parts of the question cannot be furnished in the aggregate. During the six months ended January, exports of coal to the countries in question amounted to 1,122,000 tons (24 per cent.) more than a year earlier.

asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of passengers and the number of sailings between Europe and the United States of America, North Atlantic ports, and vice versa, during the first six months of 1933, showing separate figures for British, Continental and American flags?

The following table shows the number of passengers and the number of sailings between Europe and the United States of America, North Atlantic ports, during the first six months of 1933.

asked the President of the Board of Trade what procedure is adopted in reviewing applications for the export of arms and munitions and determining what licences should be granted?

The Board of Trade are guided in this matter by the advice of the Foreign Office and the Service Departments.

asked the President of the Board of Trade how many licences for the export of arms and munitions have been granted and how many refused since 1918?

Records of the number of licences issued are not available for the whole period in question. In any event, statistics showing only the number of licences issued would give no indication of the quantities or materials covered by such licences, and to extract the information as to quantities and materials over the period for which records are available would require expenditure of much time and labour. I would point out that the monthly and annual trade accounts give particulars of the exports of arms, ammunition and military and naval stores.

asked the President of the Board of Trade to which of His Majesty's Colonies, possessions or protectorates, or to which mandated territories administered by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom the provisions of the temporary commercial agreement with the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in April, 1930, have been extended; and to which of such countries agents of the trading organisations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have been sent?

The provisions of the Anglo-Soviet Temporary Commercial Agreement, 1930, were extended to Malta, Bermuda, British Guiana, Falkland Islands, Jamaica (including Turks and Caicos Islands and Cayman Islands) Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, Wind- ward Islands (Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent). The agreement expired on 16th April, 1933. I am not aware that agents of the trading organisations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were sent to any of these Colonies, but I have no complete information on the subject.

asked the Home Secretary the number of death sentences on males and females; and the number of executions for the year 1923 and each subsequent year?

The number of persons sentenced to death in each of the years mentioned and the number of those persons who were executed are as follow:

asked the Minister of Health what was the population of the four districts of Stepney: Limehouse, St. George-in-the-East, Mile End Old Town, and Whitechapel, in 1931?

If it is rightly understood that the hon. Member refers to the four registration sub-districts, bearing the names stated, into which the Stepney registration district and metropolitan borough is at present divided for birth and death registration purposes, the particulars asked for are as follow:

asked the Minister of Health what was the population of Leicester and Stepney, respectively, in 1931 at the following age periods: 0 to 5, 5 to 10, 10 to 15, 15 to 20, 20 to 25, 30 to 35, 35 to 40, 40 to 50, 50 to 60, 60 to 70, and 70 and upward?

The hon. Member will find the particulars asked for in Table 14 of the published 1931 Census Reports for the counties of Leicester and London respectively.

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in view of the fact that no estimate has been made since the period 1927–28 of the proportions of food supplies of the United Kingdom imported from foreign and British countries and produced within the United Kingdom, respectively, he will

I have been asked to reply. This matter is at present under consideration, and I hope it may be possible to produce an annual estimate, as my hon. Friend suggests.

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amounts of the initial night rate of subsistence allowance payable on 1st June, 1929, and at the present time, to the grade of assistant principal in the following Departments: Treasury, Customs and Excise Department, Inland Revenue Department, Post Office, Air Ministry, War Office, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Colonial Office, Dominions Office, Board of Education, Ministry of Health, Home Office, India Office, Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Pensions, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Board of Trade, Ministry of Transport, and Office of Works?

The table below shows the initial night rates of subsistence allowance payable on 1st June, 1929, to the grade of assistant principal in the Departments mentioned:—

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what was the initial night rate of subsistence allowance payable on 1st June, 1929, to the grade of professional clerk in the following Departments: Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor, Director of Public Prosecutions, Inland Revenue (Solicitor's Office), Post Office (Solicitor's Office), Customs and Excise (Solicitor's Office), Land Registry, Ministry of Labour (Solicitor's Department), Ministry of Health (Legal Branch), Board of Trade (Solicitor's Department), Ministry of

The table below shows the initial night rate of subsistence allowance payable on 1st June, 1929, to the grade of professional clerk in the Departments mentioned, and to the grade of trust assistant in the office of the Public Trustee.