§ Sir C. Osborneasked the Minister of Labour if he will state the number of totally unemployed, the estimated number on short-time, and the number who have lost overtime working in the last twelve months.
§ Mr. FernyhoughAt 9th October 1967 there were in Great Britain 531,647 persons registered as wholly unemployed and 29,052 temporarily stopped. These figures are provisional.
Short-time and overtime statistics are available for operatives in establishments 361W with eleven or more employees in manufacturing industries, excluding shipbuilding and shiprepairing. During the week ended 19th August 1967, 76,800 were on short-time and 1,717,700, that is 118,000 fewer than in August 1966, worked overtime.