§ Mr. DAYasked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed persons who have been continuously on the registers of the Walworth Road (Borough) Employment Exchange for the 12 months ended to the last convenient date?
Mr. E.BROWN: Statistics with regard to the duration of unemployment are available only in respect of persons applying for insurance benefit or unemployment allowances. At 26th October, 1936, the number of applicants who had been on the registers of the Borough (Walworth Road) Employment Exchange. for 12 months or more was 588. A proportion of these will have had one or more short spells of employment, lasting not more than three days each, during this period.