Captain RAMSAYasked the Minister of Labour the numbers and professions of unemployed persons registered at the Employment Exchanges in Peeblesshire and South Midlothian?
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Mr. HUDSONThe following table gives for the principal industries the numbers of insured persons recorded as unemployed at Employment Exchanges in Peeblesshire and South Midlothian* at 26th September, 1932.
Industry. Number. Coalmining 887 Woollen and Worsted 603 Paper and Paper Board Manufacture 221 Building 134 Hosiery Manufacture 63 Distributive 51 Carpet Manufacture 32 All other industries and services 238 2,229 *The figures relate to the following Employment Exchanges: Innerleithen, Peebles, Penicuik, and Loanhead.