§ Mr. KELLYasked the Minister of Labour the number of men and women registered as employed in the artificial silk industry and in the plain net and lace trade?
§ Miss BONDFIELDSeparate statistics for the artificial silk industry and for the plain net branch of the lace trade are not available, but the following table shows the numbers of insured persons, aged 16 to 64, classified as belonging to the silk and artificial silk, and lace industries respectively, in Great Britain at July, 1929, and the numbers of such persons recorded as unemployed at 24th February, 1930:
domiciliary relief in money and kind allowed to persons in England and Wales who are ordinarily engaged in some regular occupation and their dependants was about £4,786,000 and the amount of outdoor relief allowed to destitute able-bodied unemployed persons in Scotland was about £1,103,000.