§ Mr. HARRISasked the Minister of Labour (1) how many districts where 1209W there are juvenile unemployed have not been supplied with training centres;
(2) how many juvenile unemployment training centres have been opened at the latest available date; and how many young persons are attending them?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe number of juvenile instruction centres and classes open on 20th May, 1931, was 158, with an average attendance of about 22,000 during the week ending on that date. In addition, evening class facilities for unemployed boys and girls were provided in 200 towns and villages during the session which ended at Easter. I cannot give an average attendance in these cases, but the number who passed through the classes was 6,600. There are many parts of the country in which the number of unemployed juveniles is not large enough to justify a separate centre. In most areas, however, in which the number of unemployed juvenile claimants for benefit is at all considerable, facilities of some kind are provided, and where this is not so I am pressing the matter upon the attention of the local authorities concerned.