§ Sir J. Leechasked the Minister of Labour whether he will, in future, continuously make it known in the London and provincial residential areas that the 581W services of local Employment Exchanges are available for private persons seeking to employ domestic servants and that no fees are payable by employer or employed; and will he endeavour to develop this branch of Employment Exchange activities?
§ Mr. E. BrownI have no reason to think that it is not already generally known that the services of the Employment Exchanges are available without charge to employers and workpeople offering or seeking domestic employment. During 1937 nearly 125,000 vacancies for women and girls in private domestic service were notified to the exchanges. What further part the exchanges can take in connection with the domestic
Industries. 13th December, 1937. 17th January, 1938. Number. Per cent. Number. Per cent. Building … 478 31.9 380 25.3 Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing … 1,807 35.2 1,937 378 General Engineering, etc. … 92 3.2 103 3.5 Marine Engineering … 353 8.5 362 8.7 Shipping Service … 364 31.9 343 30.1 Miscellaneous Food manufacturing Industries … 103 10.5 179 18.3 Distributive Trades … 748 17.6 799 18.8 Dock, Harbour, Canal, etc., Service … 445 46.8 284 299 All other industries and services … 1,911 23.6 1,946 24.1 Total, all industries and services … 6,301 21.6 6,333 21.8 Note.—The figures given in the table above are exclusive of unemployed insured persons within the agricultural scheme, numbering 52 and 57 at 13th December, 1937, and 17th January, 1938, respectively.