Mr. H. Wilsonasked the Minister of Labour the numbers registered as unemployed in the Prescot and Huyton areas, respectively, for each month of
NUMBERS OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS ON THE REGISTERS OF THE PRESCOT* EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT OFFICE AT THE UNDERMENTIONED DATES Date Total number of unemployed persons on the registers Numbers, included in Cols. (2) and (3), whose last employment was in the electrical wires and cables industry (1) Males (2) Females (3) Males (4) Females (5) 12th January, 1953 … … … … 584 443 41 33 16th February, 1953 … … … … 522 440 52 28 16th March, 1953 … … … … 525 477 56 36 13th April, 1953 … … … … 550 465 50 43 11th May, 1953 … … … … 420 440 35 40 15th June, 1953 … … … … 384 389 36 52 13th July, 1953 … … … … 360 367 26 55 10th August, 1953 … … … … 447 405 25 48 14th September, 1953 … … … … 424 391 24 41 12th October, 1953 … … … … 578 521 26 46 * There is no employment exchange at Huyton, which is in the area of the Prescot employment exchange.