§ Sir F. WISEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of the staff, and the cost of the Department, dealing with guns, ammunition, torpedoes and mines in 1914 and in 1925–26?
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Highest rates of unemployment. Lowest rates of unemployment. Employment Exchange. Percentage unemployed.* Employment Exchange. Percentage unemployed.* Bargoed … … 64.7 High Wycombe … 1.0 Jarrow … … 56.0 Newark … 1.3 Abertillery … … 54.6 Braintree … l.7 Tonypandy … … 53.6 Chelmsford … 1.7 Merthyr Tydfil … … 52.2 Redhill and Reigate … 1.7 Mountain Ash … … 51.2 Romford … 1.7 Willington Quay … … 44.9 Peterborough … 1.8 Bishop Auckland … … 44.0 Oxford … 1.9 Crumlin … … 42.0 Watford … 1.9 Dowlais … … 41.6 Mansfield … 1.9 Average for Great Britain 11 per cent. ✶The term unemployed includes not only persons definitely without a job, but also, persons suspended, stood off, or on short time and not at work on the day of the count. It should also be noted that it does not necessarily follow that an unemployed person registers at the same Employment Exchange as that from which he obtained his unemployment book, and the percentage of unemployment in any area are therefore subject to qualifications in this respect.
Mr. DAVIDSONThe staff provided in Vote 12 of the Navy Estimates for the Naval Ordnance and allied Departments and the cost are as follow:
1914–15 Estimates. Numbers. Cost. 114 … … £36,446 1925–26 Estimates. Numbers. Cost. 295 … … £133,545