§ Mr. Edward Daviesasked the Minister of Labour the latest available figures of men and women industrially insured and unemployed in North Staffordshire, particulars for each town to be shown separately.
§ Mr. IsaacsI have had the figures extracted and am sending them to my hon. Friend.
§ Mr. Edward Daviesasked the Minister of Labour if he will give details separately of the number of industrially insured men and women in North Staffordshire who have been unemployed for 51W more than six months, on a trade and industry basis.
§ Mr. IsaacsThe following table shows, for 9th December, 1946, the latest date for which figures are available, the numbers of insured persons on the registers of each employment exchange in North Staffordshire who had been continuously unemployed for more than six months:
Employment Exchange Men aged 18 and under 65 Women aged 18 and under 60. Audley 76 41 Biddulph 64 7 Bursiem 207 3 Chesterton 9 5 Hanley 209 — Kidsgrove 125 13 Leek 23 — Longton 168 1 Newcastle-under-Lyme 307 33 Stoke-on-Trent 107 1 An industrial analysis of these figures is not available.