§ 83. Mr. T. Reidasked the Minister of Labour what were the number and percentage of registered unemployed in 1923–24, over four years after the end of the First World War, and in 1948–49, a little less than four years after the Second World War.
§ Mr. IsaacsIn 1923 and 1924 the average numbers of insured persons unemployed in Great Britain were 1,300,000 and 1,160,000, respectively, or about 11½ per cent. and 10 per cent. of the insured population. In the period January, 1948, to April, 1949, the corresponding average was 315,000, representing rather less than 2 per cent. of the insured population.