§ 3. Mr. D. L. DAVIESasked the Minister of Labour the number of females unemployed and signing at the Reading and Weston-super-Mare Exchanges between the ages of 16 and 30 years for the period January to June, 1936?
§ Lieut.-Colonel MUIRHEADThe precise statistics asked for are not available. A special analysis relating to 18th May, 1936, however, showed that the numbers of unemployed women aged 18 and under 35 years, registered at the Reading and Weston-super-Mare Employment Exchanges, were 223 and 87, respectively. Particulars were not obtained of the numbers of unemployed girls, aged 16 and 17 years, registered at that date, but at 25th May the numbers were 20 at Reading and five at Weston-super-Mare.