§ Mr. T. SMITHasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons registered as wholly unemployed and temporarily
Unemployed persons on the registers of the Castleford and Pontefract Employment Exchanges.
Date. Castleford. Pontefract. Wholly unemployed. Temporarily stopped. Total. Wholly unemployed. Temporarily stopped. Total. 25th March, 1929 … 2,171 295 2,466 1,151 55 1,206 24th March, 1930 … 1,968 654 2,622 1,214 300 1,514 23rd March, 1931 … 2,834 2,827 5,661 1,612 479 2,091 21st March, 1932 … 3,305 1,516 4,821 1,768 1,458 3,226 20th March, 1933 … 4320 1,378 5,698 2,031 1,246 3,277 19th March, 1934 … 3,839 851 4,690 1,814 764 2,578