§ Mr. Lyonsasked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate, by numbers, the industries and percentages, respectively, and the course of employment for the city of Leicester for the month of December, 1937?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe following table shows, for the area served by the Leicester Employment Exchange and Juvenile Employment Bureau, (a) the numbers of insured persons, aged 16–64 years, recorded as unemployed in the principal industries at 13th December, 1937, and (b) these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July, 1937.
— Number. Per cent. Building 1,304 15.7 General Engineering, etc. 253 2.0 Printing, Publishing and Bookbinding. 118 3.1 Hosiery 3,940 10.4 Boots, Shoes, etc. 2,455 12.2 Distributive Trades 805 5.1 All other industries and services. 3,253 8.2 Total, all industries and services. 11,678 8.7 NOTE.—The figures given in the table above are exclusive of insured persons within the agricultural scheme; the number of such persons, aged 16–64, recorded as unemployed at the Leicester Employment Exchange at 13th December, 1037, was 114.