§ 54. Mr. DUCKWORTHasked the Minister of Labour the nature of the employment on which girls between the ages of 12 and 14 years were employed at the time of the 1921 Census, and the nature of the work on which girls between the ages of 10 and 14 years were employed at the time of the 1911 Census?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI have been asked to answer this question. Our of 28,605 girls between 12 and 14 who were returned as occupied in the Census of 1921, 16,349 were returned as textile workers, 4,269 as engaged in personal service, mostly domestic, and 2,051 as engaged in the clothing trades. The rest were scattered over a number of miscellaneous occupations. The percentage was much the same at the time of the Census of 1911, but the total was 49,276. The hon. Member will find the full particulars in volume X, Part I, Table 14A, of the Census of England and Wales for 1911, aid in Table 4 of the volume entitled"Occupations" of the Census for 1921.