§ Mr. Lyonsasked the Minister of Labour whether he will indicate the course of employment in the city of Leicester by industries, numbers, and percentages for the months of August, September, and October, 1938?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe table below 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 53W 15th August and 12th September, 1938, and (b) these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured
—— 15th August, 1938. 12th September, 1938. Number. Per cent. Number. Per cent. Building … 851 10.2 749 9.0 General Engineering, etc. … 412 3.3 389 3.1 Printing, Publishing and Bookbinding … 158 4.2 151 4.0 Hosiery … 3,140 9.3 2,694 8.0 Boots, Shoes, etc. … 3,199 15.8 2,455 12.2 Distributive Trades … 1,057 6.7 1,091 7.0 All other Industries and Services … 4,008 10.1 3,528 8.9 Total all Industries and Services … 12,825 9.6 11,057 8.3 Note.—The figures given in the table above are exclusive of insured persons within the agricultural scheme; the numbers of such persons, aged 16–64, recorded as unemployed at the Leicester Employment Exchange at 15th August and 12th September, 1938, were 108 and 91, respectively.