§ 54. Mr. LEEasked the Minister of Labour the number of men registered as unemployed at the Staveley, Bolsover, Eckington, and Chesterfield Exchanges during the month of March, 1926 and 1927, respectively?
| TABLE showing the average number of men on the registers of certain Employment Exchanges during March, 1926, and March, 1927, respectively. | |||||||
| Employment Exchanges. | March, 1926. | March, 1927. | |||||
| Wholly Unemployed. | Temporarily Stopped. | Wholly Unemployed. | Temporarily Stopped. | ||||
| Staveley | … | … | … | 75 | 4 | 184 | 427 |
| Bolsover | … | … | … | 11 | — | 147 | 138 |
| Eckington | … | … | … | 70 | 7 | 261 | 592 |
| Chesterfield | … | … | … | 575 | 119 | 867 | 1,335 |
§ 53. Mr. GEORGE HALLasked the Minister of Labour if he will give the figures showing the aggregate number of days lost for which benefit was claimed by insured persons under the Unemployment Insurance Acts for the year 1926?
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDThe total number of days of unemployment in 1926 for which unemployment benefit under the Unemployment Insurance Acts was paid, was approximately 303,000,000.