§ Colonel Ropnerasked the Minister of Labour whether he will state the number of coal miners who were unemployed in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 1st January during each of the years 1931 to 1938?
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe table below shows the numbers of insured males, aged 16–64, in the coal-mining industry, recorded as unemployed at Employment Exchanges in the West Riding of Yorkshire at a date in January of each of the years 1931 to 1938:
Date. Number. 26th January, 1931 … … 29,153 25th January, 1932 … … 45,209 23rd January, 1933 … … 45,220 2 2th January, 1934 … … 37,412 28th January, 1935 … … 40,742 20th January, 1936 … … 26,577 25th January, 1937 … … 18,699 17th January, 1938 … … 12,198 Note—.Comparison of the figure for January, 1938, with those for the earlier dates given above is affected by the introduction in September, 1937, of a revised procedure for counting the unemployed, under which persons subsequently found to be in employment at the date of the count are excluded from the figures.