§ Mr. Lyonsasked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate the course of employment by numbers, industries, and 62W percentages, respectively, for the city of Leicester for the month of May, 1938?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe following table shows, for the area served by the Leicester Employment Exchange and 63W Juvenile Employment Bureau, (a) the numbers of insured persons aged 16–64 years, recorded as unemployed in the principal industries at 16th May, 1938, and (b) these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July, 1937:
— Number. Per cent. Building 797 9.6 General Engineering, etc. 417 3.3 Printing, Publishing and Bookbinding. 143 3.8 Hosiery 3,918 11.6 Boots, Shoes, etc. 2,007 9.9 Distributive Trades 1,055 6.7 All other industries and services. 3,886 9.8 Total, all industries and services. 12,223 9.1 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 16th May 1938, was 115.