asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state the average amount of milk available for manufacture in Great Britain each week from 1st January, 1959, to the latest convenient date.

The average amount of milk available weekly for manufacture in Great Britain during the period 1st January, 1959, to 27th June, 1959, was 11·09 million gallons.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what discussions he had with the interests in the British pig industry before the decision to remove all tariffs on Danish bacon entering this country.

I would refer the hon. Member to the replies which I gave on 9th July last to Questions from the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Willey).

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many English produced eggs were sold in this country last year; and what proportion of this figure is that for eggs imported.

Complete information on the sales of eggs is not available but it is estimated that the consumption of home-produced eggs in the United Kingdom in 1958 amounted to just under 1,000 million dozen. Imported eggs were 1½ per cent. of this figure.

asked the Minister of Defence if he will give the cost of National Service during recent successive years.

These costs are not separately identifiable.

asked the Minister of Defence if he will state the amount spent upon social and welfare facilities in connection with National Service during recent years.

Social and welfare facilities are made available to the Forces as a whole, and no separate provision is made for National Service personnel.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give a list of the organisations, etc., now granted diplomatic immunities and privileges; and how many persons in this country enjoy such status.

The following is a list of international organisations upon which, or upon whose officers or officials, privileges and immunities have been conferred in the United Kingdom by Orders in Council under the International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, Ch. 14) and the earlier legislation referred to in that Statute or under the European Coal and Steel Community Act, 1955 (4 Eliz. 2, Ch. 4):The United Nations and International Court of Justice.The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.The North Atlantic Treaty Oragnisation.The International Monetary Fund. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.The International Labour Organisation.The International Civil Aviation Organisation.The World Health Organisation.The Food and Agriculture Organisation.The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation.The Council of Europe.The Universal Postal Union.The International Telecommunication Union.The Customs Co-operation Council.The World Meteorological Organisation.The International Maritime Consultative Organisation.The Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa South of the Sahara.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will arrange for inspection of passports to be carried out on board passenger ships arriving in England from French ports.

The passports of foreign travellers are already examined on board ship on some of the main services. but there are difficulties, such as physical conditions on the ships and the short time occupied by the journey, in the way of

asked the Minister of Health if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a 10-years table showing the number in mental hospitals, annual admissions, annual discharges and the annual number of re-admissions; and if he will state the latest trends since the last figures were available.

The information asked for is as follows:further extensions of the system. I will write to my hon. and learned Friend giving him full details.

asked the Minister of Labour, since he has now on two or three occasions announced figures of registered unemployment in advance of the employment figures with which the former have been customarily published, if he will in future arrange that employment and unemployment figures shall relate to the same date, so that they may be properly compared or, alternatively, on future occasions when he issues unemployment figures before the employment total is tabulated, if he will, at the same time, make a provisional estimate of employment on the basis of returns so far received, including Her Majesty's Forces.

As I stated on 11th May, I think there is a general desire that the unemployment figures should be published as soon as they are known, and I should be reluctant to return to the former practice of withholding them until estimates of employment figures are available. Any change in the arrangements for obtaining estimates of the employment figures would cause great inconvenience, and I do not think it would be justified. The communiqué giving particulars of employment, of which a copy is available in the Library of the House, contains a table on the general manpower position in Great Britain which includes an estimate of the numbers unemployed at the end of the month, so that this figure can be compared with the numbers in employment. This table is also published in the Ministry of Labour Gazette.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what further approaches he has had from the county council of Ross and Cromarty regarding the proposed road from Tolsta to Ness, in the Isle of Lewis; what is the estimated cost of this scheme; and whether he will now encourage the county council to proceed at an early date with this project, in view of its value in improving local transport in a populous area, its importance to the development of tourism and the opening up of good agricultural land, and the contribution it would make in relieving the heavy local unemployment.

I hope to discuss with the county council, whom I am meeting today, what priority it wishes to give to this and other schemes, so far as its area is concerned, in connection with the proposed expenditure on new roads in the Highlands as announced in the recent Review of Highland Policy (Cmd. 785). I understand that the county council estimates that the road would cost about £200,000.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the estimated sterling value for 1957 and 1958 of Polish exports to and imports from the United Kingdom, West Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark, respectively, in a form comparable to that published in the Board of Trade Journal and other official publications for the guidance of British exporters.

The following is the information as recorded in the official Polish Statistics, converted into sterling at the rate of £1 = 11·2 zloty.

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has yet received the Report of the Monopolies Commission on the Supply of Chemical Fertilisers.

Yes. I received the report on the 23rd July. It will be laid before Parliament today in accordance with the provisions of Section 9 of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices (Inquiry and Control) Act. 1948.

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will now state when the Report of the official Committee on London Roads will be published.

The report is being published today as a White Paper.I should like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to the Committee for the care and skill which it has brought to its complex task. The report will be of great value to Her Majesty's Government and to all concerned with the difficult and important problem of the improvement of road conditions in London.