Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 July 1947.
The total insured population is ascertained only once a year, in July, but the figures for July, 1947, are not yet available. From July, 1945, to July, 1946, the number increased by 18 per cent. in the County of London, by 16 per cent. in Greater London and by 12 per cent. in England and Wales.