§ MR. GOULDING (Worcester)To ask the President of the Local Government Board what is the estimated percentage of unemployed men in London compared with the adult male population.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) It is not practicable to estimate the number of unemployed men in London with any degree of accuracy; but I may state that the number of applications registered by the Distress Committee since the registers 46 were opened last month, up to the 21st October, was 16,910. Some of these may have found work in the meantime. The number of men on the registers of the Metropolitan employment exchanges on the 21st of this month was 7,952. I am also informed that 6,178, or 9.3 per cent., of the members of trade unions in London, making returns to the Board of Trade, were out of employment at the end of September. I am not in a position to state how far the same persons are included in more than one of those numbers. The number of male persons of sixteen years of ago and upwards in London is estimated to be 1,505,000.