§ Mr. MANDERasked the Secretary for Mines the number of miners employed and unemployed in December, 1932, and at the latest available date?
§ Mr. E. BROWNOn 27th January, 1934, there were 785,600 wage earners of all ages on colliery books as compared with 782,400 on 24th December, 1932. According to the Ministry of Labour records, there were, at 22nd January, 1934, 207,539 insured persons (16 to 64 years of age) in the coal-mining industry classification in Great Britain recorded as wholly unemployed, and 54,942 temporarily stopped. The corresponding figures at 19th December, 1932, were 238,417 and 66,940, respectively. These two sets of figures are compiled from quite different sources, for different purposes, and to some extent they overlap; they therefore bear no direct relation to one another.