Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 5 June 1939.
Mr. Jenkins:
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed persons at the several Employment Exchanges in Monmouthshire who have been registered for periods of one to five years?
Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd
, Mid Bedfordshire
As the reply includes a table of figures, I will, if I may, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
The table below gives, in respect of 15th May, 1939, for each Employment Exchange in Monmouthshire, the total number of unemployed persons on the register, the number of applicants for benefit or unemployment allowances, and the number of such applicants who had been continuously on the registers for one year or more.
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