§ Mr. Churchillasked the Secretary of State for Employment, of the total of persons currently unemployed, how many are female; and, of these, how many are not the breadwinners of single-parent families.
§ Mr. AlisonOf the 2,953,340 persons registered as unemployed in the United Kingdom on 12 November, 856,643 were female. It is not possible to distinguish from records held at employment offices, on which the unemployment figures are based, how many were breadwinners of single-parent families.