Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 27 March 1929.
Sir Archibald Sinclair
, Caithness and Sutherland
asked the Minister of Labour how many more people were in employment on 1st January, 1929, than were in employment on 1st January, 1925, distinguishing between insured and uninsured trades; and how the figures are arrived at?
Sir Henry Betterton
, Rushcliffe
Separate statistics of the numbers of uninsured persons in employment are not available. I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a statement giving such figures as are available regarding the numbers of insured persons in employment in Great Britain in January, 1925, and January, 1929, respectively.
Sir Archibald Sinclair
, Caithness and Sutherland
If the figures of the uninsured trades are not available, will the hon. Gentleman make clear, in the statement which he has promised, how much of the increase in the insured trades is due to people coming into the category of the insured trades from the uninsured trades; how much is due to the better administration of the scheme; and how much to the fact that a large number of people have come into the insured trades from the uninsured?
Sir Henry Betterton
, Rushcliffe
If the hon. and gallant Gentleman will put the question down, I will see what I can do.
| Date. | Estimated numbers insured aged 16–64. | Insured persons unemployed. | Difference between Cols. 2 and 3. | Estimated number of Insured persons aged 16–64 in employment after deducting from Col. 4 3½ per cent. of the numbers in Col. 2 to allow for sickness and other unrecorded non-employment, exclusive of temporary holidays. (A) Including persons directly involved in trade disputes. (B) Excluding persons directly involved in trade disputes. | ||
| (A) | (B) | |||||
| 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | |
| 1925. | ||||||
| 26 January 1929. | … | 11,182,000 | 1,246,000 | 9,936,000 | 9,545,000 | 9,543,000 |
| 21 January | … | 11,682,000* | 1,421,800 | 10,260,200 | 9,851,300 | 9,848,300 |
| * Provisional figure. |
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