§ 43. Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many men, women, boys and girls, respectively, were registered at the Mexborough and Wombwell employment exchanges at the latest available date; and how these figures compare in percentages with the national averages.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithAt 9th October the provisional numbers registered as unemployed in the area covered by the Mexborough employment exchange were 1,268 men, 336 women, 118 boys and 129 girls. The corresponding figures for Wombwell were 456 men, 88 women, 27 boys and 26 girls. Rates of unemployment cannot be calculated separately for men, women, boys and girls or for parts of travel-to-work areas. The percentage rates of unemployment for the Mexborough and Goldthorpe travel-to-work area were 9.4 for males, 7.5 for females and 8.8 in total. The corresponding figures for the Barnsley, Hoyland, Royston and Wombwell travel-to-work area were 7.1, 2.6 and 5.7, respectively, and for Great Britain were 4.7, 1.6 and 3.6.