§ Major GLYNasked the Minister of Labour if she will consider issuing a return for the purpose of ascertaining the total number of registered unemployed who give their occupation as that of an agricultural labourer, showing the figures for each county in England and Wales as on the 31st May last?
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§ Miss BONDFIELDThe following table gives the number of wholly unemployed men and women registered at Employment Exchanges in each county of England and Wales on 26th May, 1930, as applicants for work in agriculture and horticulture:
County. Men. Women. Anglesey 1 — Bedfordshire 45 — Berkshire 90 1 Brecknockshire 10 — Buckinghamshire 14 1 Carnarvonshire 10 — Cambridgeshire 21 70 Cardiganshire 4 — Carmarthenshire 2 — Cheshire 63 3 Cornwall 2 — Cumberland 45 2 Denbighshire 6 — Derbyshire 13 — Devonshire 36 — Dorsetshire 12 — Durham 82 2 Essex 47 4 Flintshire 4 — Glamorgan 16 11 Gloucestershire 88 1 Hampshire 47 1 Herefordshire 38 4 Hertfordshire 40 — Huntingdonshire 28 6 Kent 109 16 Lancashire 189 15 Leicestershire 24 — Lincolnshire 169 55 London 37 28 Merionethshire 1 — Middlesex 32 6 Monmouthshire 45 — Montgomeryshire 14 — Norfolk 61 19 Northamptonshire 26 — Northumberland 66 3 Nottinghamshire 36 4 Oxfordshire 34 — Pembrokeshire 11 1 Salop 66 7 Somersetshire 41 1 Staffordshire 38 8 Suffolk 127 4 Surrey 47 4 Sussex 21 — Warwickshire 38 1 Westmorland 1 — Wiltshire 54 2 Worcestershire 31 38 Yorkshire 366 22 Total, England and Wales 2,448* 340* * These figures include 554 men and 55 women classified as gardeners and other workers in horticulture.