§ Mr. Lyonsasked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate the course of employment in the city of Leicester by numbers, industries, and percentages, respectively, for the month of December, 1939?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe following table shows, for the area served by the Leicester Employment Exchange and Juvenile Employment Bureau, the numbers of insured persons, aged 16–64 years, recorded as unemployed in the principal industries at nth December, 1939, and these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July, 1939:
Industry. Number. Per cent. Building 963 14.1 General engineering, etc. 184 1.4 Printing, publishing and bookbinding 237 6.8 Hosiery 346 1.1 Boots, shoes, etc. 581 3.0 Distributive trades 773 4.8 All other industries and services* 2,138 5.4 Total, all industries and services* 5,222 4.0 * The figures given in the table are exclusive of insured agricultural workers; the number of insured persons, aged 16–64, within the agricultural scheme, who were recorded as unemployed at the Leicester Employment Exchange at nth December, 1939, was 104.