HC Deb 16 February 1939 vol 343 cc1917-8W
Mr. MacNeill Weir

asked the Minister of Labour whether he will state the number of unemployed registered at each of the Employment Exchanges of Stirling-shire and Clackmannanshire in February in each of the years 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, and at the latest convenient date?

Mr. E. Brown

The following table shows the total numbers of unemployed persons, aged 14 and over, on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire at the dates in question:

recent years has been only £450,000,000, he can indicate what is the approximate proportion of the total number of insured persons employed in this country whose employment is considered to depend on the export trade, and on home trade, respectively?

Mr. E. Brown

I regret that the available information is insufficient for the purpose of such an estimate.