asked the Minister of Labour if he will give particulars of the total number of persons unemployed at the beginning of November, the percentage rate, and the corresponding figures for November of last year?

The number registered at the Employment Exchanges in Great Britain as wholly unemployed was 1,366,774 on 6th November, 1922, and 1,630,299 on 4th November, 1921. These figures cannot be given as percentages, but the percentages unemployed in the insured trades, as shown by the numbers of unemployment books lodged, were 11·9 at the end of October, 1922, and 14·6 on 4th November, 1921.