§ 26. Mr. E. BROWNasked the Minister of Labour if he will give the latest estimate of the number of women who are insured persons in the unemployment insurance scheme; how many of them are estimated to be unemployed; and how many of them were in receipt of unemployment benefit at the last date for which he has statistics?
§ Mr. SHAWThe estimated number of women in insured trades in Great Britain is 2£ millions, of whom 225,026 were 399 registered at Employment Exchanges as unemployed on 28th April. The number of women with claims to unemployment benefit current at that date was 183,718, Many of these women are textile workers on short time.
§ Mr. SPEAKERThat does not really arise out of the question.