HC Deb 15 December 1926 vol 200 c2905
10. Mr. KELLY

asked the Minister of Labour the number of workpeople registered at Employment Exchanges as unemployed from the chemical trade in the months of October, 1924, October, 1925, and October, 1926?

The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Betterton)

The number of persons classified as belonging to the chemicals industry, and recorded at Employment Exchanges in Great Britain as unemployed at 25th October, 1926, was 11,219, as compared with 9,346 at 26th October, 1925, and 8,615 at 27th October, 1924.

Mr. H. WILLIAMS

Are the figures based on the classification made last year or on the earlier classification?

Mr. BETTERTON

I think they are based on the classification of last July, but I am not quite sure.