On 12th February, the number of insured persons in Great Britain aged 16–64, classified as belonging to the engineering industries and recorded as unemployed, was 43,143. This figure, however, includes all workers connected with the industry, skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled, and also ancillary workers of all types, such as clerks, cleaners and transport workers. I am not in a position to state separately the number of semi-skilled and unskilled workers included in the total. As my hon. Friend will be aware, I am at present engaged in discussing with the employers and the trade unions in the engineering industries the measures required for the expansion of the labour force to the extent rendered necessary by the Government's war programme. The question of training facilities is amongst the matters being discussed.