§ Mr. STOREYasked the Minister of Labour the number of insured workers in the general engineering, marine engineering and building industries registered as unemployed at the Sunderland, Pallion and Southwick-on-Wear employment exchanges at the latest convenient date; and what percentage these figures represent of the insured workers in these industries registered at those exchanges?
§ Lieut.-Colonel MUIRHEAD, pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th July, 1935; col. 19, Vol. 304], supplied the following statement:
Numbers and percentages of insured persons, aged 16–64, recorded as unemployed in the undermentioned industries at Sunderland, Pallion and Southwick-on-Wear Employment Exchanges and Sunderland juvenile employment bureau at 24th June, 1935:
336WLeicester by industries, numbers and percentages, respectively, for the months of May and June of this year?
§ Mr. E. BROWNThe available figures relate to the area served by the Leicester Employment Exchange and juvenile employment bureau. The following table gives the information desired for this area:
— Number. Per cent. of numbers insured at July, 1934. General Engineering 849 46.4 Marine Engineering 1,390 58.4 Building 1,313 31.6