Mr. W. Joseph Stewartasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour the number of persons unemployed in the administrative county of Durham, and the county boroughs of Sunderland and South Shields?
§ Mr. AsshetonThe numbers of unemployed persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges situated in the administrative county of Durham and in the county boroughs of Sunderland and South Shields at 20th May, 1940, were as follow:
Durham Administrative County 26,681 Sunderland County Borough 8,749 South Shields County Borough 5,629
Mr. Stewartasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour the number of miners now unemployed in the county of Durham?
§ Mr. AsshetonOn 20th May, 1940, there were 5,717 insured men, aged 18–64, classified as belonging to the coalmining industry, recorded as unemployed at Employment Exchanges in the county of Durham.