HC Deb 07 March 1932 vol 262 c1489W
Mr. PEARSON

asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed in the shipbuilding industry to-day as compared with 1929?

Sir H. BETTERTON

At 25th January, 1932, there were 110,331 insured persons in the shipbuilding and ship-repairing industry classification recorded as unemployed in Great Britain. The corresponding figure at 21st January, 1929, was 53,323.