HC Deb 11 July 1923 vol 166 cc1338-9
99. Mr. ROBERT YOUNG

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many temporary employés were serving in Government Departments on 1st July, 1921, 1922, and 1923, respectively; and, of the total number in each year, how many were ex-service men, non-service men, and women?

The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Sir W. Joynson-Hicks)

If the hon. Member agree, I propose to circulate the reply in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Following is the reply:

any other source showing the total number of unemployed persons in France. So far as out-of-work donation is concerned, the numbers of persons in receipt of donation were as follow:

March, 1921 81,526
March, 1922 7,915
March, 1923 2,571
But the French donation scheme is not so wide in its application as the provisions of our Unemployment Insurance Acts. In many branches of French industry there is an actual shortage of labour and, as I have informed the House, I have been able, with the co-operation of the French Government, to offer facilities to expert mechanics in this country to take up work in France.

Mr. COLLISON

Can the right hon. Gentleman say why there is such a large decrease in 1922 and 1923?

Sir M. BARLOW

Because, I assume, the industrial conditions in France very rapidly improved.

Mr. EMLYN-JONES

Does not the right hon. Gentleman consider that the comparative absence of unemployment in France is due to the system of peasant proprietorship?

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