§ Mr. Lyonsasked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate the course of employment by numbers, industries, and percentages, respectively, for the City of Leicester for the month of March, 1938.
§ Mr. E. Brown,pursuant to his reply(OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th April, 1938, col. 1337, Vol. 334),supplied the following statement:
The 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 14th March, 1938, and (b) these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July, 1937.
— Number. Per cent. Building 909 10.9 General engineering, etc. 371 2.9 Printing, Publishing and Bookbinding. 132 3.5 Hosiery 3,886 11.5 Boots, Shoes, etc. 1,686 8.3 Distributive Trades 1,082 6.9 All other industries and services. 3,726 9.4 Total, all industries and services. 11,792 8.8 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 r4th March, 1938, was 96.