§ Mr. Hall-Caineasked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed agricultural workers at the present time coming under the insurance scheme, and their distribution by counties?
§ Mr. E. BrownFollowing is the information:
At 14th December, 1936, there were 26,143 insured agricultural workers, aged 14–64, recorded as unemployed in Great Britain. The following table shows the number for each county:
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ENGLAND. London (Administrative County) 95 South East England: Bedfordshire 95 Buckinghamshire 72 Cambridgeshire 907 Essex 675 Hertfordshire 168 Huntingdonshire 33 Kent 1,402 Middlesex 566 Norfolk 513 Suffolk 311 Surrey 170 Sussex 201 South West England: Berkshire 225 Cornwall 569 Devonshire 288 Dorsetshire 164 Gloucestershire 201 Hampshire 375 Oxfordshire 107 Somersetshire 356 Wiltshire 169 Midlands: Derbyshire 174 Herefordshire 293 Leicestershire 182 Northamptonshire 216 Nottinghamshire 302 Rutlandshire 19 Shropshire 213
Staffordshire 255 Warwickshire 149 Worcestershire 503 Northern England: Cheshire 554 Cumberland 532 Durham 546 Lancashire 1,500 Lincolnshire 3,125 Northumberland 426 Westmorland 36 Yorkshire 2,043 SCOTLAND. Aberdeenshire 537 Angus 352 Argyllshire 127 Ayrshire 407 Banffshire 102 Berwickshire 30 Buteshire 15 Gaithness-shire 65 Clackmannanshire 22 Dumbartonshire 97 Dumfries-shire 236 East Lothian 130 Fifeshire 379 Inverness-shire 184 Kincardineshire 73 Kinross-shire 18 Kirkcudbrightshire 41 Lanarkshire 1,053 Mid-Lothian 377 Morayshire 200 Nairnshire 18 Orkney — Peebles-shire 11 Perthshire 305 Renfrewshire 141 Ross and Cromarty 56 Roxburghshire 66 Selkirkshire 38 Stirlingshire 134 West Lothian 101 Wigtownshire 135 Zetland 11 WALES. Anglesey 197 Brecknockshire 67 Cardiganshire 130 Caernarvonshire 189 Carmarthenshire 84 Denbighshire 207 Flintshire 65 Glamorganshire 266 Merionethshire 70 Monmouthshire 223 Montgomeryshire 102 Pembrokeshire 142 Radnorshire 10