§ 8. Mr. KELLYasked the Minister of Labour the numbers of men and women registered as unemployed from the textile trade, cotton and woollen, in February and March of this year?
§ Mr. BETTERTONAs the reply includes a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the statement:
| NSURED PERSONS classified as belonging to the COTTON and WOOLLEN and WORSTED TEXTILE INDUSTRIES recorded as Unemployed in Great Britain at 25th February, 1929. | |||||||||
| Industry. | Men. | Women. | Juveniles. | ||||||
| Wholly unemployed. | Temporarily stopped. | Total. | Wholly unemployed. | Temporarily stopped. | Total. | Wholly unemployed. | Temporarily stopped. | Total. | |
| Cotton | 10,396 | 12,798 | 23,194 | 16,144 | 23,816 | 39,960 | 531 | 2,316 | 2,847 |
| Woollen and Worsted. | 5,768 | 7,294 | 13,062 | 5,552 | 11,885 | 17,437 | 355 | 752 | 1,107 |
| Statistics of unemployment in the various industries in respect of March are not yet available. |