§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Minister of Labour for the latest available date the total number registered as unemployed in Great Britain?
§ Mr. BETTERTONThe total on 16th April was 1,083,800, made up of 760,500 wholly unemployed, 256,900 temporarily stopped and 66,400 normally in casual employment. I take this opportunity of
814Wdition of these eases are not available. During the same period small-pox was entered on the medical certificate as the cause or one of the causes of death in 66 instances. The figures quoted above are, of course, provisional.