§ 83. Mr. Dyeasked the Minister of Labour how many farm workers have been registered as unemployed in Norfolk during 1958, up to the latest available date; and how this compares with the same period in 1951 and 1955.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodAs a count of the numbers unemployed is made only in respect of one day in each calendar month it is not possible to say how many farm workers have been registered as unemployed in Norfolk in 1958, but at 14th April there were 1,444 persons whose last employment was in agriculture, on the unemployment registers at employment exchanges and youth employment offices in Norfolk compared with 1,030 at 16th April, 1951, and 572 at 18th April, 1955.