HC Deb 25 January 1968 vol 757 cc170-1W
67. Mr. Marten

asked the Minister of Labour in which months in 1967 and 1968 did the number of wholly unemployed stand at over 500,000.

Mr. Fernyhough

The number registered as wholly unemployed in Great Britain exceeded 500,000 on each monthly count made during the periods January to April, 1967, and August, 1967, to January, 1968.