asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed in the administrative county of Durham and the county boroughs of Sunderland, Gateshead, South Shields, Stockton, and West Hartlepool up to the man's war service.
The table below shows the numbers of unemployed persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges situated in the administrative county of Durham and in each of the undermentioned county boroughs at 11th March, 1940. Figures for the Stockton and Thornaby Employment Exchange (including the Stockton juvenile employment bureau), which serves Stockton and Thornaby municipal boroughs, are included in those for Durham administrative county, and are also shown separately below.
| Durham Administrative County | 32,280 |
| Sunderland County Borough | 10,924 |
| Gateshead County Borough | 5,342 |
| South Shields County Borough | 6,512 |
| West Hartlepool Borough | 3,345 |
| Stockton and Thornaby (included in figures for Durham Administrative County above) | 2,673 |
asked the Minister of Labour the number of miners now unemployed in the county of Durham?
On 11th March, 1940, there were 6,571 insured men, aged 18–64, classified as belonging to the coal mining industry recorded as unemployed at Employment Exchanges in the county of Durham.