§ Major GLYNasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many women and girls were included in the figure of 218,730 unemployed and under-employed persons on the register in Scotland at the end of June; and what were the corresponding figures for the same period last year?
§ Mr. LAWSON; Of the 218,731 persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Scotland at 23rd June, 1930, 48,609 were women and 4,714 were girls; out of 139,784 persons on the registers at 24th June, 1929, 21,747 were women and 3,208 were girls.