§ 69. Mr. McSHANEasked the Minister of Labour whether she can give an analysis by trades of the number of people receiving transitional benefit or an approximate estimate of the numbers in the chief trades?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY-SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Lawson)As the reply includes a table of figures I will circulate a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT:
§ Following is the statement:
§ The latest date for which an industrial analysis of the numbers on transitional benefit is available is 24th November, 1930. The following table gives estimated figures in respect of insured persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain at that date whose claims had been authorised for transitional benefit:
| Industry. Men. | Estimated Number. |
| Coalmining | 62,300 |
| Building and Public Works Contracting | 43,100 |
| Engineering industries and manufacture and repair of motor vehicles, cycles and aircraft | 26,000 |
| Distributive Trades | 23,900 |
| Transport and Communication | 22,000 |
| Textile Industries | 15,300 |
| Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing | 14,900 |
| Metal Trades | 10,100 |
| Iron and Steel | 8,900 |
| All other industries | 71,800 |
| Total | 298,300 |
| Women. | |
| Cotton | 23,200 |
| Woollen and worsted | 4,200 |
| Textile Industries (other than cotton, woolen and worsted) | 6,200 |
| Distributive Trades | 7,300 |
| Clothing Trades | 3,900 |
| Food, drink and tobacco | 3,800 |
| Metal manufacture and metal trades | 3,400 |
| All other industries | 15,000 |
| Total | 67,000 |