HC Deb 29 June 1938 vol 337 cc1944-6W
Mr. Rhys Davies

asked the Minister of Labour whether he will state the number of operatives employed in the Lancashire textile industry in each of the years 1918, 1928, and 1938, respectively, and the number unemployed for each of the last five years?

Mr. E. Brown,

pursuant to his reply (OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th May, 1938; Vol. 334, col. 411), supplied the following statement:

Statistics of the number of insured persons in the textile industries are not available for any year earlier than 1923. The table below shows for the cotton, the textile bleaching, printing, dyeing, etc., industries and for all other textile industries in Lancashire, the estimated numbers of insured persons (employed and unemployed) at July of the years

Date. Cotton. Textile, Bleaching, Printing, Dyeing, etc. All other textile industries. All textile industries.
Estimated total numbers insured.
July, 1923 … … … 457,070 46,650 25,880 529,600
July, 1928 … … … 448,650 48,100 34,020 530,770
July, 1937 … … … 329,340 39,680 52,560 421,580
Insured persons recorded as unemployed.
25th June, 1923 … … … 26,825 3,690 198 30,713
25th June, 1928 … … … 57,580 4,963 2,890 65,433
21st June,1937 … … … 35,868 6,024 4,046 45,938
24th April, 1933 … … … 121,019 13,355 8,051 142,425
23rd April, 1934 … … … 93,242 11,534 5,387 110,163
15th April, 1935 … … … 86,054 6,360 9,701 102,115
27th April, 1936 … … … 62,787 9,687 5,219 77,693
19th April,1937 … … … 36,838 6,453 4,103 47,394
4th April,1938 … … … 86,077 10,739 9,027 105,843
NOTE.—The for 1923 relate to persons aged 16 over, while those for later dates refer to persons aged 16–64.

1923, 1928 and 1937, the latest date for which such figures are available, and the numbers of such persons recorded as unemployed at a date in June of those years and in April of the years 1933 to 1938.