Viscountess ASTORasked the Minister of Labour the number of registered bricklayers, masons, plasterers, plumbers, and slaters employed and unemployed for the last quarters of the years 1928 and 1929, respectively?
§ Miss BONDFIELDStatistics of the numbers actually in employment in the periods specified are not available, but the following table gives the estimated numbers of insured persons in the occupations in question, classified as belonging to the building industry in Great Britain at July of 1928 and 1929, and the numbers of such persons recorded as unemployed in the last quarter of each of those years.