§ Sir A. POWNALLasked the Minister of Labour if she will give, by districts, the number of married and single women on the unemployment register?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe following statement gives the information desired:
Women Claimants on the Registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain at 13th October, 1930. Division. Single (including widows). Married. Total. London and South Eastern. 22,912 22,432 45,344 South Western 8,253 5,011 13,264 Midlands 32,164 44,990 77,154 North Eastern 40,075 33,405 73.480 North Western 96,629 109,956 206,585 Scotland 32,305 22,043 54,348 Wales 6,088 990 7,078 Total 238,426 238,827 477,253
Captain WALLACEasked the Minister of Labour the numbers of married women in insurable employment, and the numbers unemployed, at the latest convenient date?
§ Miss BONDFIELDPrecise statistics of the number of women insured under the Unemployment Insurance Acts who are married are not available. At 13th October, 1930, there were on the Registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain 238,827 married women who were claimants for benefit.