§ 66. Captain DOWERasked the Minister of Labour what percentage of the in slued population is registered as unememployed at Alston, Cumberland?
Mr. STANLEYThe number of insured persons, aged 16 to 64, recorded as un employed at the Alston Employment Exchange at 22nd October, 1934, represented 53 per cent. of the estimated number of insured persons of those ages in the area of that exchange at July, 1934.
§ Captain DOWERIs my right hon. Friend aware that in the report upon the distressed areas the number given is 41 per cent., but that since that time there has been a vast increase in the figures of the unemployed, and will he bear in mind the later figure, which is 53 per cent., in any further measures that are to be taken?