§ Mr. Edeasked the Minister of Labour how many unemployed juveniles have
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Numbers of Insured Persons, aged 16–64 years, recorded as unemployed in the principal industries, on 13th November, 1939, and 14th November, 1938, at the Greenock Employment Exchange and these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers insured at July, 1938. Industry. 13th November, 1939. 14th November, 1938. Number. Per cent. Number. Per cent. Building 177 12.7 287 20.6 Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing 881 15.7 1,761 31.4 General Engineering, etc 48 1.8 141 5.3 Marine Engineering, etc. 152 3.6 343 8.0 Shipping Service 155 13.4 299 25.8 Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing Indus-tries. 84 8.5 106 10.7 Distributive Trades 555 13.0 775 18.2 Dock, Harbour, River, Canal, etc., Service 233 24.0 468 48.2 All other industries and services 1,333 15.7 1,949 23.0 Total, all industries and services 3,618 12.1 6,129 20.6 been registered in South Shields on the appropriate and comparable date in each of the last 12 months for which statistics are available, giving the figures for boys and girls separately?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe following table shows the numbers of unemployed boys and girls, aged 14–17 years, on the registers of the South Shields Employment Exchange at one date in each month from November, 1938, to November, 1939:
Date. Boys. Girls. Total. 1938. 14th November … 399 334 733 12th December … 401 276 677 1939. 16th January … 552 370 922 13th February … 489 405 894 13th March … 479 391 870 17th April … 506 401 907 15th May … 486 402 888 12th June … 401 329 730 10th July … 331 280 611 14th August … 370 357 733 11h September … 303 333 696 16th October … 371 401 772 13th November … 352 458 810