Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 13 March 1929.
Sir Henry Betterton
, Rushcliffe
I can give the total figures. The total figure in February, 1928, was 107,965, and in February, 1929, 179,903. Of course, it is obvious that the greater part of this increase is due to the very severe weather which prevailed in February of this year.
