§ 51. Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were the numbers and percentages of males, females, boys and girls, respectively, who were, at the latest available date, registered as unemployed at the Mexborough and Wombwell employment exchanges.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithAt 10th January the provisional numbers registered as unemployed in the area covered by the Mexborough Employment Exchange were 1,364 men, 263 women, 75 boys and 70 girls. The corresponding figures for Wombwell were 594, 95, 45 and 28.
For the Mexborough and Goldthorpe travel-to-work area, the percentage rates of unemployment were 9.7 for males and 5.4 for females. The corresponding figures for the Barnsley travel-to-work area, which includes Wombwell, were 9.1 and 2.6. Rates of unemployment cannot be calculated separately for boys and girls.