§ Mr. Howeasked the Minister of Labour by what percentage the total number of persons registered unemployed in the Northern Region on 6th December, 1965, exceeded the corresponding number on 8th November: and what estimate he has made of the probable percentage by which the January figures will exceed those for 6th December.
§ Mr. ThorntonThe Answer to the first part of the Question is 14.8 per cent. and to the second that my right hon. Friend has made no such estimate.