§ Mr. Lyonsasked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate the course of employment by percentages and numbers, respectively, for the city of Leicester, for the month of November, 1937?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe following table shows, for the area served by the Leicester Employment Exchange and Juvenile Employment Bureau (a) the numbers of insured persons, aged 16–64 years, recorded as unemployed in the principal industries at 15th November, 1937, and (b) these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July, 1937.
— 15th November, 1937. Number. Per cent. Building 840 10.1 General engineering, etc. 266 2.1 Printing, Publishing and Bookbinding. 130 3.5 Hosiery 2,530 7.5 Boots, Shoes, etc. 1,952 9.7 Distributive Trades 815 5.2 All other industries and services. 2,932 7.4 Total, all industries and services. 9,465 7.1 Note.—The figures given in the table above are exclusive of insured persons within the agricultural scheme; the number of such persons, aged 16–64, recorded as unemployed at the Leicester Employment Exchange at 15th November, 1937, was 83.