§ Sir A. GRIFFITH-BOSCAWENasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give an estimate of the rate of unemployment in the United Kingdom last month on the assumption that throughout the whole of the various industries the rate of unemployment was the same as among trade union members?
Mr. BUXTONThe rate of unemployment among members of trade unions, which make regular returns to the Board of Trade, is published monthly in the "Board of Trade Labour Gazette." At the end of January the rate was 2.7 per cent.