Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 27 March 1929.
Sir Percy Harris
, Bethnal Green South West
asked the Minister of Labour what are the number of unemployed persons on the live register for the borough of Bethnal Green, separately from those from adjacent boroughs registered at the same Employment Exchanges?
Sir Henry Betterton
, Rushcliffe
At 25th February, 1929, there were 3,148 persons resident in the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green on the registers of Employment Exchanges, including 2,603 men, 480 women and 65 juveniles.
Sir Archibald Sinclair
, Caithness and Sutherland
Is it not a fact that it is on the Paper now? I desired the Minister to differentiate between uninsured and insured trades. Would it be possible for the hon. Gentleman to make a differentiation so as to bring it within the terms of the question on the Paper?
Sir Henry Betterton
, Rushcliffe
We have not got the information for which the hon. and gallant Gentleman asks.
Sir Archibald Sinclair
, Caithness and Sutherland
Do not the figures show what men and women have come into the insured from the uninsured trades?
Sir Henry Betterton
, Rushcliffe
No, I do not think they do, and that is rather a different point from the point on the Paper.
Sir Archibald Sinclair
, Caithness and Sutherland
The question on the Paper asks for figures distinguishing between insured and uninsured trades.
Sir Henry Betterton
, Rushcliffe
I have stated that separate statistics of uninsured persons in employment are not available. We have not got them.
Sir Percy Harris
, Bethnal Green South West
I thank the hon. Gentleman for the trouble which he has taken.
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