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Mr. R. Gibson
asked the Minister of Labour what is the course of unemploy-
| — | 11th March, 1940. | 12th February, 1940. | 13th March, 1939. | |||
| Number. | Per cent. | Number. | Per cent. | Number. | Per cent | |
| Building | 141 | 9·2 | 265 | 17·2 | 253 | 18·2 |
| Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing | 684 | 13·0 | 808 | 15·4 | 1,967 | 35·1 |
| General Engineering, etc. | 48 | 1·6 | 50 | 1·7 | 135 | 5·1 |
| Marine Engineering, etc. | 106 | 2·5 | 138 | 3·3 | 351 | 8·2 |
| Shipping Service | 105 | 10·6 | 125 | 12·6 | 252 | 21·7 |
| Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing Industries. | 119 | 12·1 | 139 | 14·2 | 111 | 11·1 |
| Distributive Trades | 416 | 9·8 | 497 | 11·7 | 756 | 17·7 |
| Dock, Harbour, River, Canal, etc. Service. | 161 | 17·5 | 257 | 27·9 | 435 | 44·8 |
| All other industries and services* | 1,068‡ | 12·9 | 1,194 | 14·4 | 1,913 | 22·5 |
| Total all industries and services* | 2,848 | 9·7 | 3,473 | 11·8 | 6,173 | 20·7 |
| *These figures are exclusive of unemployed insured persons within the agricultural scheme. | ||||||
| ‡Of this total 251 were in hotel, boarding house, etc. services, 91 in local Government service, 77 in public works contracting and 45 in bread, biscuit, cake, etc. manufacture. The remaining 604were distributed over a large variety of industries, in each of which the numbers unemployed were small. | ||||||