§ Mr. Tinkerasked the Minister of Labour whether he will give the total number of unemployed men over 45 years of age who are on the registers of the Employment Exchanges; what is the percentage of the total number of unemployed; and will he give the corresponding figures for Lancashire?
§ Mr. E. Brownpursuant to his reply (OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd December, 1937; Vol. 329, col. 2223), supplied the following statement
At 1st November, 1937, there were 452,386 unemployed men, aged 45 and over, on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain, including 73,921 in Lancashire. These numbers represented, in each case, slightly under 400W former employment). Short-time workers not at work on the day of the count are included in the latter category but are not separately distinguished in the statistics.
The table below shows the numbers of insured persons recorded as unemployed in the woollen and worsted industry at the Employment Exchanges at Dewsbury, Batley and Bradford at a date in November of the years 1937, 1936 and 1935, distinguishing those wholly unemployed and those temporarily stopped:
40 per cent. of the total number of males registered as unemployed.