§ Mr. LAWSONasked the Minister of Labour the number of placings through the Employment Exchanges of the country during 1929, 1930, and 1931, and the number who have been placed this year?
Mr. HUDSONThe numbers of vacancies filled by Employment Exchanges and Juvenile Employment Bureaux in Great Britain in these years were as follow:
1929 … 1,556,271 1930 … 1,732,144 1931 … 1,952,057 1932 (to 26th September) … 1,314,987