§ Sir J. POWERasked the Minister of Labour for the latest date for which the figures are available the number of persons on the live register of the Employment Exchanges and the number of unemployed persons, exclusive of dependants, who are in receipt of poor relief, indicating how many of these persons are included in both totals; and, for comparison, the corresponding totals for a year previously?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe only date for which these figures are at present avail able is 17th February, 1930. At that date there were 1,523,941 persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain. The number of heads of families who were in receipt of Poor Law relief in respect of unemployment was approximately 89,500. It is estimated on the basis of a 10 per cent. sample that of this number approximately 63,500 were on the registers of Employment Exchanges.