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Mr. Lyons
asked the Minister of Labour whether he will state the number of persons registered for employment in the hosiery and underwear trades who were unemployed, wholly or in part, in the whole country and in the city of Leicester, respectively, at the latest convenient date, and the percentage these figures represent, respectively, of the industry's employment at that time?
Mr. E. Brown
The table below shows the numbers of insured persons, aged 16-64, in the hosiery (including hosiery underwear) industry, recorded as unemployed in Great Britain and at Leicester, respectively, at 10th July, 1939, and these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated numbers of insured persons at
| — | Great Britain. | Leicester. | ||||
| Number. | Percent. | Number. | Percent. | |||
| Wholly Unemployed | … | … | 3,147 | 2.7 | 430 | 1.4 |
| Temporarily Stopped | … | … | 2,638 | 2.2 | 475 | 1.6 |
| Total | … | … | 5,785 | 4.9 | 905 | 3.0 |