§ Mr. N. Pannellasked the Minister of Labour if he can now state what were the figures for unemployment in respect of Commonwealth and colonial immigrants in the Midlands area for August, 1960, and November, 1960, respectively.
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§ Mr. HareI must apologise to my hon. Friend and the House for inadvertently giving incorrect figures in answer to a supplementary question last Wednesday (OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th November, col. 375). The figures I gave then related to the North-West Region.
In the Midlands Region, the number of unemployed Commonwealth immigrants rose from 1,397 in August to 2,610 in November, including a rise in the number temporarily stopped from 1 to 310. Nearly all of these 310 had been in employment in motor-car firms or in allied industries, but hardly any of the remaining 903.