Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 6 February 1929.
Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland
, Birmingham Erdington
It is a question of how the statistics are kept. As everyone familiar with them knows, if they are kept in areas, an area can be tabulated, but, if it is a question of dividing up areas, then you begin to com-plicate matters so much that it causes a great deal of extra trouble and expense. If the trouble and expense were worth it, it would be done, but, in this case, I do not see from the hon. Member's own point of view that it would be worth it.