§ 55. Mr. Hurdasked the Minister of Labour the latest total of registered unemployed in the Reading and Newbury districts; what is the number of vacant jobs registered at the local employment exchanges; and how many of these are in Government establishments.
§ Mr. CarrThe number of unemployed persons aged eighteen and over on the registers of the Reading Employment Exchange at 13th February was 275 and the number of vacancies notified to this office and remaining unfilled at 8th February was 960. The corresponding figures for Newbury Employment Exchange were 92 and 380, respectively. About seventy of the unfilled vacancies at Reading and about eighty at Newbury were at Government establishments.