§ 3. Mr. MARCUSasked the Minister of Labour the approximate volume of unemployment, at the latest available date, in France, Germany, the United States, Italy, Austria, Hungary and Russia?
§ Miss BONDFIELDAs the reply is somewhat long, I will circulate it, if I may, in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the reply:
§ As regards France, Germany and the United States of America, I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given on 8th July to the hon. Member for Chester- 742 field (Mr. Benson). As regards Germany, it has since been officially reported that at 30th June the number of persons registered by public employment exchanges as unemployed was approximately 3,962,000. In Italy, 670,353 persons were recorded by the National Social Insurance Fund as wholly unemployed and 28,780 as partially unemployed at the end of April. In Austria, there were 286,932 persons on the registers of the employment exchanges at the end of April. For Hungary, the only available information relates to the proportions unemployed among certain trade unions with about 145,000 members: of these members, 28,171, or 19.4 per cent. were reported in April to be unemployed. There are no statistics of unemployment in Russia.