§ 79. Mr. POTTSasked the Minister of Labour the total number of insured persons under the Unemployment Insurance Acts for the years 1934 and 1935, inclusive, and the number of adult insured persons under the Unemployment Insurance Acts, giving males and females separately, for 1934 and 1935?
§ Lieut.-Colonel MUIRHEADAs the reply includes a table of figures, I will, if I may, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the reply:
| The estimated numbers of insured persons are ascertained once a year in July, on the basis of the number of unemployment books exchanged. The following table shows the estimated numbers of insured persons in Great Britain at July 1934, and July, 1935: | ||
| — | 1934. | 1935. |
| Estimated number of insured persons at beginning of July, exclusive of persons insured under the Special Schemes: | ||
| Men aged 21–64 | 7,839,000 | 7,982,000 |
| Young men aged 18–20 | 857,000, | 820,000 |
| Boys aged 16 and 17 | 468,000 | 450,000 |
| Boys aged 14 and 15 | —* | 516,000 |
| Women aged 21–64 | 2,353,000 | 2,393,000 |
| Young women aged 18–20 | 655,000 | 625,000 |
| Girls aged 16 and 17 | 368,000 | 357,000 |
| Girls aged 14 and 15 | —* | 410,300 |
| Estimated numbers insured under the Special Schemes for the Banking and Insurance Industries: | ||
| Men aged 18–64† | 100,000 | 101,000 |
| Boys aged 16 and 17 | 2,600 | 3,000 |
| Boys aged 14 and 15 | —* | 800 |
| Women aged 18–64† | 45,100 | 47,000 |
| Girls aged 16 and 17 | 2,300 | 2000 |
| Girls aged 14 and 15 | —* | 700 |
| Total (including Special Schemes) | 12,690,000 | 13,708,000 |
| *Juveniles aged 14 and 15 were not insurable at July, 1934. | ||
| †Separate figures for persons aged 18–20 years are not available in tin case of those insured under the Special Schemes. |