§ 3. Mr. McENTEEasked the Minister of Labour the number of juveniles unemployed between the ages of 14 to 16 and 16 to 18, and the number receiving instruction at the latest available date?
§ Lieut.-Colonel MUIRHEADAt 25th May, 1936, there were 54,184 unemployed juveniles, aged 14 and 15 years, and 46,463 aged 16 and 17, on the registers of Employment Exchanges and Juvenile Employment Bureaux in Great 366 Britain. The number continuing to attend school is considerable and amounted on 23rd March, 1936, to 11,777. Of those who had left school the average daily attendance at junior instruction centres and classes during the week ended 20th May, 1936, was 29,988. The average daily attendance of unemployed juveniles during the month ended 26th April, 1936, at other educational institutions was 583.