4. Mr. ROBINSONasked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed in the Elland Division in January, 1914, 1924, 1925, 1926, and 1927, respectively; and whether any schemes for providing work for the unemployed in the division are under consideration?
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDStatistics are available only in respect of the Employment Exchange at Brighouse and branch offices at Elland and Greetland. The numbers of persons on the registers at these offices were 2,525 at 5th January, 1924; 3,002 at 5th January, 1925; 2,529 at 4th January, 1926, and 3,407 at 3rd January, 1927. There are no comparable figures for January, 1914. No application has been made recently to the Unemployment Grants Committee by any local authority in the area covered by the offices named for a grant-in-aid of a proposed scheme of work for the relief of unemployment.