§ 27. Captain BOURNEasked the Minister of Labour if she can give the figures for the number of insured persons in full-time employment on the 1st October, or the nearest convenient date, 1928, 1929, and 1930, respectively?
§ Miss BONDFIELDIt is estimated that at 22nd September, 1930, there were approximately 9,646,500 insured persons aged 16 to 64 in employment in Great Britain as compared with 10,304,000 at 23rd September, 1929, and 10,008,200 at 24th September, 1928. These estimates have been obtained by deducting from the total numbers insured, the numbers recorded as unemployed and those directly involved in trade disputes, together with an allowance of 3½ per cent. of the numbers insured in respect of persons absent from work through sickness and other forms of unrecorded non-employment other than holidays.
§ Captain BOURNEDo those figures include women as well as men?
§ Miss BONDFIELDYes.