HC Deb 05 February 1959 vol 599 cc126-7W
122. Mr. Grimond

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what policies Her Majesty's Government propose with a view to preventing increasing numbers of nations acquiring and testing nuclear bombs.

Mr. R. Allan

We are doing out utmost at the Geneva Conference to negotiate a properly controlled agreement on stopping nuclear weapons tests, to which we hope that other countries will find it possible to accede.

EMPLOYMENT AT END-SEPTEMBER AND UNEMPLOYMENT, ETC., IN OCTOBER IN GREAT BRITAIN IN 1951 AND 1958
1951 1958
Males Females Total Males Females Total
Estimated total number in Civil employment at end September 14,930,000 7,420,000 22,350,000 15,292,000 7,805,000 23,097,000
Number registered as unemployed in October 152,872 110,884 263,756 359,755 154,087 513,842
Number on short time in manufacturing industries in September, 1951, and October, 1958 66,149 164,600
Number of notified vacancies remaining unfilled in October 244,702 126,507 371,209 88,292 78,394 166,686

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