Firstly, he ensured that consular reports of trade and the trade requirements of different countries of the world should be published and available at a low price instead of being lost among general Foreign Office papers. Secondly, he established a labour statistics bureau to allow information to be published and disseminated to the labouring class. Thirdly, he expanded the Board to include a fisheries department, previously the realm of three different government departments, to look after both sea and inland fisheries. (It was later to be united with the Agriculture department set up in 1899 at Mundella's instigation, though after his death.)