§ Mr. Lyonsasked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate the course of employment in the city of Leicester by industries, numbers, and percentages, respectively, for the month of June, 1937?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe available figures relate to the area served by the Leicester Employment Exchange and Juvenile Employment Bureau. The following table shows for this area(a) the numbers of insured persons, aged 16 to 64 years, recorded as unemployed in the principal industries in Leicester at 21st June, 1937, and (b) these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July 1936:
— Number. Per cent. Building 500 6.6 General Engineering, etc. 226 2.1 Printing, Publishing and Bookbinding. 123 3.6 Hosiery 1,807 5.8 Boots, Shoes, etc. 2,163 11.0 Distributive Trades 836 5.7 All other industries and services. 2,494 6.9 Total, all industries and services. 8,149 6.6 NOTE.—The figures given in the Table above are exclusive of insured agricultural workers; the number of such workers, aged 16–64, recorded as unemployed at the Leicester Employment Exchange at 21st June, 1937, was 31.