§ Mr. Burkeasked the Minister of Labour the average percentage of unemployment during 1934 in the boroughs of Gateshead, Darlington, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Wallsend, Blyth, Redcar, Whitehaven, Workington and Burnley, and in the urban districts of Whitley Bay, Cockermouth and Maryport.
§ Mr. BevinAs the areas served by local offices of the Ministry of Labour and National Service are not co-terminous with local authority areas, the available data do not provide a basis for statistics showing the numbers or percentages un-834W employed in the local authority areas specified. The following table shows the percentage obtained if the average numbers of insured persons aged 16 and under 65 years, recorded as unemployed month by month during 1934 at local offices of the Ministry of Labour situated in the localities named, are related to the total numbers of insured persons, of those ages, whose unemployment books were exchanged at the same local offices in July, 1934. As, however, considerable numbers of insured persons register, when unemployed, at local offices other than those at which their unemployment insurance books are exchanged, these percentages may be misleading as an indication of the relative levels of unemployment in the localities named.
Locality Percentage (computed as explained above) Gateshead … … 42.0 Darlington … … 19.2 Newcastle area* … … 23.3 Wallsend … … 32.4 Blyth … … 24.3 Redcar … … 23.8 Whitehaven … … 27.1 Workington … … 30.4 Burnley … … 25.0 Whitley Bay … … 28.2 Cockermouth … … 42.2 Maryport … … 54.6 * Including Newcastle, Elswick, Heaton and Walker.