HC Deb 10 November 1930 vol 244 cc1331-2W
Mr. WHITE

asked the Minister of Labour in how many industries there are organised arrangements whereby workers are enabled alternately to earn wages and to draw benefit under the Unemployment Insurance Acts; what these industries are; and what are the numbers of men and women workers, respectively, included in such arrangements?

Mr. LAWSON

I regret that statistics are not available which would give the to require the drivers of motor vehicles to observe the existing speed limit; and whether he can give a return of the number of prosecutions of the drivers of motor vehicles for driving to the danger of the public and exceeding the speed limit in the royal parks during the above periods?

Mr. LANSBURY

The statistical information is appended. It is not possible to say how many of the accidents are due to excessive speed, but every effort is being made to enforce the speed limit of 20 miles an hour now imposed by the Parks Regulations.

information desired. The industrial analyses of insured persons recorded as unemployed published each month in the Ministry of Labour Gazette give separate figures for persons temporarily stopped from the service of their employers, but while these figures include persons working on systems of organised short time or intermittent employment and unemployment, separate figures for this latter class are not available. I should add that the numbers "temporarily stopped" do not include persons on systematic short time who were at work on the day on which the count of the register is taken.