§ 44. Sir JOHN POWERasked the Minister of Health the average output of bricks per working day, the average number of bricklayers at work, and the output of bricks per bricklayer per day?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Betterton)I have been asked to reply. The output of bricks in Great Britain in 1926 is estimated at about 6,000 millions, which, allowing for Sundays and holidays and the half-day on Saturday, would be about 21½ millions for each full working day. The number of insured bricklayers in the building trade in July, 1926, less those recorded as unemployed, was about 84,000; there are no precise statistics as to the number of bricklayers employed in other trades, which, however, is considerable, and I cannot, therefore, give the output of bricks per head for the total number of bricklayers.