HC Deb 13 April 1927 vol 205 c381W
Mr. SHORT

asked the Minister of Labour the number of miners unemployed on 31st March, 1927?

Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND

At 21st March, 1927, the latest date for which figures are available, the number of insured persons classified as belonging to the coal mining industry recorded as unemployed in Great Britain was 205,751, of whom 121,385 were wholly unemployed and 84,366 were temporarily stopped.