§ 32. Mr. JOHNasked the Minister of Labour if he will provide statistics showing the number of wholly unemployed miners registered at the Employment Exchanges of Wales and Monmouthshire during each of the four weeks ending 17th and 24th September and 1st and 8th October last, respectively; and the number of wholly unemployed miners who were paid unemployment benefit in Wales and Monmouthshire in each of the periods mentioned?
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDWeekly figures in respect of individual industries are not available, but the numbers of insured persons in Wales and Monmouthshire classified as belonging to the coal mining industry recorded as wholly unemployed were 56,996 at 24th September, 1928, and 55,914 at 22nd October. I am unable to state how many of these were actually in receipt of benefit at the dates given.