§ 37. Mr. SHINWELLasked the Minister of Labour how many shale miners and oil workers in the county of West Lothian were registered as unemployed at the Employment Exchanges in March of this year, and how many were in receipt of benefit?
§ Mr. BETTERTONAs stated by my hon. and gallant Friend the Secretary for Mines, on 15th March last in reply to the hon. Member for the Bothwell Division (Mr. Sullivan), separate figures
| Insured Persons classified as belonging to the COAL MINING INDUSTRY recorded as Unemployed at the Doncaster and Mexborough Employment Exchanges. | |||||||
| Date. | Doncaster. | Mexborough. | |||||
| Wholly Unemployed. | Temporarily Stopped. | Total. | Wholly Unemployed. | Temporarily Stopped. | Total. | ||
| 26th April, 1926 | … | 111 | 1 | 112 | 62 | 2 | 64 |
| 23rd April, 1928 | … | 710 | 4,592 | 5,302 | 386 | 1,547 | 1,933 |