HC Deb 07 December 1926 vol 200 c1926W
Mr. KELLY

asked the Minister of Labour the number of workpeople who are registered at the Employment Exchanges as being unemployed from the shipbuilding trade?

Mr. BETTERTON

At 25th October, 1026, the number of persons in the shipbuilding and ship repairing industry recorded at Employment Exchanges in Great Britain as unemployed was 97,243, or 46.4 per cent. of the estimated number of insured persons in that industry.