§ 7. Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOXasked the Minister of Labour the number of boys and girls of the ages 16–17, 17–18, 18–19, 19–20, and 20–21 in receipt of unemployment benefit at the end of February, 1930, and at the latest date available?
§ Miss BONDFIELDAs the reply includes a table of figures, I will circulate a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT, giving the information so far as available.
Following is the statement:
Separate statistics for each year of age or for the numbers actually in receipt of benefit are not available. The following table gives the numbers, aged 16 and 17, and 18 to 20, on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain with claims to benefit admitted or under consideration, at 24th February, 1930, and 23rd February, 1931.
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe only figures available regarding the employment of aliens in this country are those obtained from the population census of 1921. At that date the foreign-born resident population of alien and unstated nationality in Great Britain included 112,080 males and 32,737 females, who were gainfully occupied. These figures 559 include employers, managers and persons working on their own account. Separate figures for employed persons are not available. The total is distributed over a large number of industries. The hon. and gallant Member will find particulars in the "Occupations" volume of the 1921 Census.
Sir F. HALLIs the right hon. Lady aware that there are no figures in the report to which she has referred which gives the number of aliens who receive unemployment benefit in this country, or the number who are employed?
§ Miss BONDFIELDNo such figures are obtainable.
§ Sir ASSHETON POWNALLCan the right hon. Lady find out whether transitional benefit is to any appreciable extent paid to aliens?
| INSURED PERSONS aged 16 to 64 classified as belonging to the cardboard box, paper bag and stationery industry at the end of June of each year, 1925–1930. | ||||||||
| Year. | Estimated number insured at 1st July. | Number recorded as unemployed at end of June. | Differences. | |||||
| 1925 | … | … | … | … | … | 53,550 | 3,267 | 50,283 |
| 1926 | … | … | … | … | … | 55,450 | 3,549 | 51,901 |
| 1997 | … | … | … | … | … | 55,030 | 2,311 | 52,719 |
| 1998 | … | … | … | … | … | 54,740 | 2,116 | 52,624 |
| 1929 | … | … | … | … | … | 57,000 | 2,148 | 54,852 |
| 1930 | … | … | … | … | … | 57,400 | 4,560 | 52,840 |