§ 83. Mr. Haleasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons registered on the disabled persons employment register for the area served by the Oldham Employment Exchange for the last twelve months to the most recent convenient date, the number who have been unemployed for any part of that period and the number who have been employed for less than six months of that period.
§ Mr. WoodThe number of persons registered as disabled in the Oldham Employment Exchange area was 2,574 in October, 1957, and 2,475 in April, 1958. The results of a further count taken last month are not yet available. I regret that there are no figures which provide the exact information asked for in the latter part of the Question, but in June, 1958, 194 registered disabled persons were unemployed, of whom 95 had been out of work for more than six months. In October, 1958, the number unemployed was 244. A further analysis showing duration of unemployment will be carried out in December.
§ 84. Mr. Haleasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons in the Oldham employment area registered as wholly unemployed or registered as in receipt of benefit for two or more days of partial unemployment for the week which ended nearest to 15th October in the years 1951, 1954, and 1958, respectively.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodAt 13th October, 1958, there were 1,392 persons registered as wholly unemployed at the Oldham and Chadderton Employment Exchange and Youth Employment Offices and 2,850 temporarily stopped. Corresponding figures at 11th October, 1954 were 355 and 144, and at 15th October, 1951, 200 and 22.
The numbers on the registers include non-claimants as well as persons claiming unemployment benefit and National Assistance.
38WThe "temporarily stopped" are persons working short-time or otherwise temporarily suspended who were not at work on the Monday to which the figures relate and who were registered at the Employment Exchange and Youth Employment Offices.