HC Deb 03 April 1952 vol 498 c145W
82. Mr. Bowden

asked the Minister of Labour the number of boot and shoe and hosiery workers registered as unemployed at the Leicester employment exchange on 29th March and at the same date in 1951.

Sir W. Monckton

On 17th March (the latest date for which figures are available) the number of unemployed persons on the registers of the Leicester employment exchange whose last employment was in the boot and shoe and hosiery industries was 297 and 1,054 respectively. The figures for 12th March, 1951, were nine in the boot and shoe and 20 in the hosiery industries.