12. Viscountess ASTORasked the Minister of Labour the percentage of male and female workers, respectively, registered as unemployed in each of the following categories: pottery trades, textile trades, clothing trades, food, drink, and tobacco trades?
| PERCENTAGE rates of unemployment among insured persons classified as belonging to certain industries, in Great Britain at 22nd December, 1930. | ||||||
| Industry. | Percentage unemployed. | |||||
| Males. | Females. | Total. | ||||
| Pottery, Earthenware, etc. | … | … | … | 35.5 | 47.2 | 41.9 |
| Cotton | … | … | … | 45.6 | 48.4 | 47.4 |
| Woollen and Worsted | … | … | … | 26.4 | 28.4 | 27.6 |
| Silk manufacture and artificial silk weaving | … | … | … | 27.3 | 36.4 | 33.2 |
| Artificial silk yarn | … | … | … | 47.6 | 48.9 | 48.2 |
| Linen | … | … | … | 28.3 | 35.5 | 33.5 |
| Jute | … | … | … | 35.8 | 35.4 | 35.6 |
| Hemp, Rope, Cord, Twine, etc. | … | … | … | 20.1 | 25.1 | 23.4 |
| Hosiery | … | … | … | 13.7 | 18.1 | 17.2 |
| Lace | … | … | … | 23.3 | 20.2 | 21.4 |
| Carpets | … | … | … | 18.8 | 20.7 | 20.0 |
| Textile industries not separately specified | … | … | … | 14.9 | 22.4 | 20.1 |
| Textile Bleaching, Printing, Dyeing, etc. | … | … | … | 32.9 | 31.6 | 32.5 |
| Tailoring | … | … | … | 16.8 | 16.2 | 16.4 |
| Dress Making and Millinery | … | … | … | 9.4 | 8.2 | 8.3 |
| Hats and Caps (including Straw Plait) | … | … | … | 19.9 | 22.1 | 21.2 |
| Shirts, Collars, Underclothing, etc. | … | … | … | 7.5 | 12.9 | 12.3 |
| Dress industries not separately specified | … | … | … | 17.2 | 9.4 | 11.9 |
| Boots, Shoes, Slippers and Clogs | … | … | … | 27.7 | 22.3 | 25.6 |
| Bread, Biscuits, Cakes, etc. | … | … | … | 11.8 | 11.1 | 11.5 |
| Grain Milling | … | … | … | 10.3 | 10.7 | 10.3 |
| Cocoa, Chocolate and Sugar Confectionery | … | … | … | 15.5 | 15.7 | 15.7 |
| Food industries not separately specified | … | … | … | 11.1 | 21.3 | 16.2 |
| Drink | … | … | … | 8.4 | 16.3 | 10.3 |
| Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Snuff | … | … | … | 5.2 | 9.3 | 7.9 |
§ 14. Captain CROOKSHANKasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed in the cotton industry at the last available date in January, 1931; and how it compares with the numbers unemployed in the same industry in May, 1929?
§ 16. Sir ASSHETON POWNALLasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed in the engineering trade on the last available date; and what was the comparable figure at the end of May, 1929?
§ Miss BONDFIELDAs the reply is in the form of a table, I will, if I may, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
Viscountess ASTORIf more women, are unemployed in these trades than men, does not the right hon. Lady think that there ought to be some special schemes to deal with them?
§ Miss BONDFIELDPerhaps the Noble. Lady will look at the table.
§ Following is the reply:
§ 19. Commander SOUTHBYasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed in the shipbuilding trade at the last available date in January, 1931; and how it compares with the numbers unemployed in the same industry in May, 1929?
§ 21. Captain A. HUDSONasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed in the woollen industry at the last available date in January, 1931; and how it compares with the number unemployed in the same industry in May, 1929?
§ 22. Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLANDasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed in the iron and steel trades in Great Britain at the latest date available and in May, 1929?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe latest date for which information is available is 22nd December, 1930. The figures desired for that date and for 27th May, 1929, will be found in the issues of the Ministry of Labour Gazette for January, 1931, and June, 1929, copies of which I am sending to the hon. and right hon. Members.
§ Sir A. POWNALLCan the right hon. Lady say whether all these figures show an increase as compared with May, 1929?
§ Miss BONDFIELDI hope that the hon. Gentleman will look at, the table.
Lieut. - Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALLSurely the right hon. Lady can answer that question either in the affirmative or in the negative.
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDHas the promise been fulfilled to stimulate all these depressed trades, and are the figures to which the Minister alludes the result of the stimulus?
§ 15. Captain CROOKSHANKasked the Minister of Labour the increase in the number of unemployed on the live register at the present, time which is estimated to be due to changes introduced by the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1930?
§ Miss BONDFIELDI regret that the information necessary for making such an estimate is not available.