Written Answers
Post Office (Air Mail, India)
asked the Postmaster-General the total weight of correspondence sent to India by air for the 12 months ended to the last convenient date?
During the year ended 30th September, 1936, 107,083 lb. of air mail, including 12,211 lb. of air parcels, were sent from this country to India.
Cancer Death Rate
asked the Minister of Health whether he can state the number of deaths from cancer and kindred malignant tumours in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively, for each of the last ten years, giving also the death rate per million inhabitants from those causes for each of those countries?
For England and Wales as a whole the figures are as follow:
| No. of Deaths. Persons. | Standardized death rates per million persons living. | |
| 1926 | 53,220 | 999 |
| 1927 | 54,078 | 996 |
| 1928 | 56,253 | 1,011 |
| 1929 | 56,896 | 1,010 |
| 1930 | 57,883 | 1,003 |
| 1931 | 59,346 | 998 |
| 1932 | 60,716 | 1,001 |
| 1933 | 61,572 | 997 |
| 1934 | 63,263 | 1,003 |
| 1935 | 64,507 | 1,001 |
Agriculture
Meat (Imports And Home Production)
asked the Minister of Agriculture what quantity of beef and veal of all kinds was imported into this country for the year ended 30th November, 1936, giving foreign and Empire imports separately; and what was the estimated consumption of home-produced beef and veal for the same period?
Information regarding imports in November will not be available until after the middle of December. Imports of beef and veal of all descriptions into the United Kingdom in the twelve months ended 31st October, 1936, amounted to 648,000 tons, of which 144,000 tons were consigned from British countries and 504,000 tons from foreign countries. In addition, the equivalent in beef and veal of fat cattle and calves imported during the same period is estimated at 50,000 tons; the whole of these imports were from British countries. The quantity of home-produced beef and veal available for consumption in the United Kingdom in the year ended 31st May, 1936, is provisionally estimated at about 740,000 tons, but no information is available to enable an estimate to be made for the year ended 31st October or 30th November.
| Years. | Regular Workers. | Casual Workers. | Total Workers | ||||
| Males, 21 yrs. old and over. | Males, under 21 yrs. old. | Women and Girls. | Males, 21 yrs. old and over. | Males under 21 yrs. old. | Women and Girls. | ||
| No. | No. | No. | No. | No. | No. | No. | |
| 1931 | 434,983 | 116,915 | 64,409 | 62,255 | 9,347 | 28,698 | 716,607 |
| 1932 | 419,649 | 115,689 | 62,314 | 64,698 | 9,317 | 25,814 | 697,481 |
| 1933 | 422,519 | 113,589 | 59,603 | 78,531 | 10,924 | 30,380 | 715,546 |
| 1934 | 415,472 | 107,111 | 53,225 | 72,425 | 9,245 | 30,494 | 687,972 |
| 1935 | 413,051 | 104,740 | 50,070 | 67,797 | 9,220 | 28,325 | 673,203 |
| 1936 (prov.) | 401,300 | 100,500 | 44,600 | 57,900 | 8,000 | 27,800 | 640,100 |
| The figures in the above statement exclude occupiers and their wives and domestic servants; they include relatives (other than wives) of occupiers. No information is available as to the proportion of such relatives in receipt of wages for their services. | |||||||
Atlantic Air Service
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he can now make clear the policy of the Government in relation to the proposed Atlantic air service from Liverpool to Sydney (Nova Scotia) projected by the Irish Atlantic Corporation, Limited, stating whether such a service by this company would be eligible for State subsidy or whether such subsidy will be excluded by any contemplated legislation?
Regular And Casual Workers (Statistics)
asked the Minister of Agriculture how many persons were working for wages in the agricultural industry for the year 1931 and each succeeding year?
The number of workers employed on agricultural holdings above one acre in extent in England and Wales, as returned on the 4th June of each of the years 1931–1936. is given in the following statement:
The projected arrangements for the North Atlantic Air Service were fully explained on the 30th July last, in reply to a question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Berwick and Haddington (Captain McEwen), and it is not the intention to subsidise alternative schemes. I am sending the hon. Member a copy of the reply in question. No question of legislation arises.