Mr. W. Joseph Stewartasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed in the administrative county of 39W Durham and the county boroughs of Sunderland, Gateshead, South Shields, Stockton, and West Hartlepool up to the man's war service.
§ Mr. E. BrownThe table below shows the numbers of unemployed persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges situated in the administrative county of Durham and in each of the undermentioned county boroughs at 11th March, 1940. Figures for the Stockton and Thornaby Employment Exchange (including the Stockton juvenile employment bureau), which serves Stockton and Thornaby municipal boroughs, are included in those for Durham administrative county, and are also shown separately below.
Durham Administrative County 32,280 Sunderland County Borough 10,924 Gateshead County Borough 5,342 South Shields County Borough 6,512 West Hartlepool Borough 3,345 Stockton and Thornaby (included in figures for Durham Administrative County above) 2,673
Mr. Stewartasked the Minister of Labour the number of miners now unemployed in the county of Durham?
§ Mr. E. BrownOn 11th March, 1940, there were 6,571 insured men, aged 18–64, classified as belonging to the coal mining industry recorded as unemployed at Employment Exchanges in the county of Durham.