HC Deb 04 March 1925 vol 181 cc434-5
60. Mr. HERBERT WILLIAMS

asked the Minister of Labour whether the records at the Employment Exchanges are now kept in such a manner as to indicate the number of insured ex-service men who are unemployed; and, if so, whether he can state how many ex-service men were registered as unemployed on 23rd February?

Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND

Statistics of unemployed ex-service men are not regularly compiled. A special census taken on 24th March, 1924, showed that at that date 285,993 ex-service men were registered as unemployed at Employment Exchanges in Great Britain.