§ 36. Mr. BARCLAY - HARVEYasked the Minister of Labour the total number of young men between the age of 16 and 21 who are registered as unemployed?
§ Mr. BETTERTONStatistics of the. ages of persons registered at Employment Exchanges are not normally compiled, but the results of an investigation with regard to 1 per cent. of the claimants to benefit at the end of 1924 showed that 6.8 per cent. of the male claimants whose cases were investigated were between the ages of 16 and 20. Applying this percentage to the number of males registered at 23rd November, 1925, the number in this age group would at that date be about 66,000.