§ 92. Mr. Haymanasked the Minister of Labour how many persons of each sex over 50 years of age were registered as unemployed at the Falmouth, Camborne and Redruth employment exchanges, re spectively, at the latest convenient date.
§ Sir W. MoncktonAt 7th December, 1953, the latest date for which figures are available, the numbers were 50 men and nine women at Falmouth, 70 men and 13 women at Camborne and 123 men and 16 women at Redruth. The figures relate to persons who were registered as wholly unemployed.
§ 93. Mr. Haymanasked the Minister of Labour how many persons of each sex were registered as unemployed at the Falmouth, Camborne and Redruth employment exchanges, respectively, at the latest convenient date and at the comparable dates in 1951, 1952 and 1953.
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§ Sir W. MoncktonThe table below gives the information desired.
NUMBERS OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS ON THE REGISTERS OF THE FALMOUTH, CAMBORNE AND REDRUTH EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES AT THE UNDERMENTIONED DATES 15th January, 1951 14th January, 1952 12th January, 1953 11th January, 1954* Falmouth: Males 516 108 134 153 Females 66 85 59 70 Camborne: Males 148 75 194 390 Females 26 29 67 73 Redruth: Males 339 164 250 333 Females 75 50 130 120 *The figures for Camborne and Redruth for 11th January, 1954, include the following numbers of persons who were "temporarily stopped" owing to short-time working.
Males Females Camborne 204 9 Redruth 38 1 The numbers temporarily stopped at the earlier dates were very small.
§ 94. Mr. Haymanasked the Minister of Labour how many in the engineering industry have been registering in recent weeks at the Camborne and Redruth employment exchanges, respectively, because of short-time working.
§ Sir W. MoncktonThe numbers vary slightly from week to week. At the beginning of last week the numbers were about 230 at Camborne and 40 at Redruth.