§ Mr. Morleyasked the Minister of Labour if he will state to the nearest convenient date the number of unemployed in Southampton classified according to trades and occupations and the number at a comparable date in 1935.
§ Mr. IsaacsThe following tables give industrial analyses of the numbers of persons registered as unemployed at employment exchanges in Southampton at 13th November, 1950, and at 15th November, 1937—the earliest year for which an industrial analysis is available. Between the two dates there were some changes in the classification of employments and the figures for industries with the same title may not be strictly comparable.
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UNEMPLOYED AT 15TH NOVEMBER, 1937 Industry Males aged 14 and under 65 Females aged 14 and under 65 Total Building … … … … … … 333 1 334 Civil engineering contracting … … 259 — 259 Shipbuilding and ship-repairing … … 374 4 378 Electric cable, apparatus, lamps etc. … 24 20 44 Shipping service … … … … 1,480 68 1,548 Port transport (docks, wharves, etc.) … 416 9 425 Distributive trades … … … … 439 155 594 Hotel, boarding house, etc., service … … 233 152 385 Entertainments and sports, etc. … … 51 16 67 Laundry service … … … … 3 77 80 All other industries and services … … 703 112 815 Total—All industries and services … 4,315 614 4,929