§ 72. Mr. Mainwaringasked the Minister of Labour the total number of wage earners, regular and casual, respectively, engaged in agriculture in each of the 13 Welsh counties during the past five years.
§ Mr. WatkinsonStatistics of employees engaged in agriculture are not readily available by separate counties nor is it possible to identify regular and casual wage earners. The following are the132W were employed in each quarter in 1953 in new houses, industrial building, agricultural building, school building, repair work and all other forms of building work, respectively.
§ Sir D. EcclesFollowing is the information:
estimated numbers of insured employees engaged in agriculture in Wales and Monmouthshire at the end of May in each of the years 1948 to 1953.
— Males Females Total 1948 27,290 5,390 32,680 1949 27,390 4,690 32,080 1950 25,790 3,790 29,580 1951 23,770 3,200 26,970 1952 23,440 2,640 26,080 1953 22,400 3,000 25,400
§ 73. Mr. Mainwaringasked the Minister of Labour how the figures of unemployment among regular and casual agricultural workers in each of the 13 Welsh counties compare with the incidence of similar conditions in each of the previous five years.
§ Mr. WatkinsonStatistics are not readily available by separate counties nor is it possible to identify regular and casual workers. The following table shows the numbers of workers, whose last employment was in agriculture, registered 133W as unemployed in Wales and Monmouth-shire at one date in January and July in each of the years 1949 to 1953 and in January, 1954.
Date Males Females Total 1949— 10th January 1,036 229 1,265 11th July 786 121 907 1950— 16th January 943 193 1,136 10th July 717 80 797 1951— 15th January 956 134 1,090 16th July 469 43 512 1952— 14th January 656 94 750 14th July 396 82 478 1953— 12th January 659 89 748 13th July 395 59 454 1954— 11th January 682 65 747