§ Sir R. GOWERasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons belonging to the shipbuilding, ship-repairing, marine engineering, and allied trades, and of dock labourers, who were registered as unemployed at the Chatham (Kent) Employment Exchange on the 17th January, 1930?
§ Miss BONDFIELDAt 16th December, 1929, the latest date for which figures are available, the insured workpeople,862W aged 16 to 64, recorded as unemployed at the Chatham Employment Exchange included 252 classified as belonging to shipbuilding and ship-repairing, 53 to marine engineering, 119 to general engineering, and 231 to dock and river service.
§ Sir R. GOWERasked the Minister of Labour how many persons who have been transferred from distressed areas to the Chatham district (Kent) were working in the Royal Naval Dockyard at Chatham during the week ending 17th January, 1930?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe number of persons transferred from the scheduled depressed mining areas who were employed at the Royal Naval Dockyard at Chatham during the week ended 17th January, 1930, was 19.