HC Deb 18 December 1945 vol 417 cc1287-8W
Sir W. Smithers

asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed at the latest available date.

Mr. Isaacs

The number of insured persons suitable for ordinary employment who were registered as unemployed in Great Britain at 12th November was 266,461.

Mr. Edward Davies

asked the Minister of Labour the current figures of unemployed workers in North Staffordshire, on a trade industry basis.

Mr. Isaacs

The table below gives an industrial analysis of the number of insured persons aged 14 years and over registered at employment exchanges in North Staffordshire as unemployed at 12th November, 1945;:

Building 100
Public Works Contracting, etc. 87
Engineering, etc. 1,618
Construction and Repair of Motor Vehicles, Cycles and Aircraft 362
Explosives Manufacture 210
Pottery, Earthenware, etc. 146
Coalmining 334
Distributive Trades 158
National Government Service 466
Local Government Service 78
All other industries and services 656
Total 4.215

The total excludes 1,022 insured men and women on the registers who had been classified as unsuitable for ordinary employment.

NOTE.—The local offices included for the purpose of the table are the following: Audley, Biddulph, Burslem, Chesterton, Hanley, Kidsgrove, Leek, Longton, New-castle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent.

Mr. Rhys Davies

asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed, at the last available date, in the townships of Aspull, Blackrod, Hindley, Horwich and Westhoughton, respectively.

Mr. Isaacs

The only figures available relate to the numbers of unemployed persons registered at particular Employment Exchanges. The numbers of insured persons aged 14 years and over registered as unemployed at 12th November, 1945, at Aspull, Hindley, Horwich and Westhoughton Exchanges were 139, 312, 286 and 186 respectively. These figures are exclusive of persons on the registers classified as unsuitable for ordinary employment, numbering three at Aspull, 70 at Hindley, one at Horwich and 34 at Westhoughton. Figures are not available for Blackrod, where there is no separate employment exchange. It is understood that residents in Blackrod, when unemployed, mostly register at Horwich.