§ Sir W. de FRECEasked the Minister of Labour the six chief industries of the country from the point of view of capital invested and workers engaged therein?
§ Mr. BETTERTONOut of the 100 industries for which unemployment insurance statistics are obtained the five which include the greatest number of workers are the distributive trades, coalmining, the building industry, general engineering 519W (including engineers' iron and steel founding), and the cotton textile industry. To these five must be added agriculture. I understand from my right hon Friend, the President of the Board of Trade, that except in the case of railways there is no official information as to the amount of capital invested in particular industries in the United Kingdom.