Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons am ar 30 Ebrill 1929.
Mr Martin Connolly
, Newcastle upon Tyne East
asked the Minister of Labour if he can give the figures for the incidence of unemployment in the following trades for each month commencing
| NUMBERS and PERCENTAGES of INSURED PERSONS classified as belonging to certain industries recorded as unemployed in Great Britain, January, 1928 to March, 1929. | ||||||||||
| Date. | Shipbuilding and ship-repairing. | Pig Iron. | Steel melting and iron-pudding furnaces, iron and steel rolling mills and forges. | Coal Mining. | Canal, river, dock and harbour service. | |||||
| 1928. | Number. | Per cent. | Number. | Per cent. | Number. | Per cent. | Number. | Per cent. | Number. | Per cent. |
| 23rd Jan. | 38,317 | 19.6 | 3,793 | 16.2 | 38,402 | 20.4 | 211,183 | 18.1 | 43,414 | 25.9 |
| 20th Feb. | 39,318 | 20.1 | 3,314 | 14.2 | 36,211 | 19.3 | 215,442 | 18.5 | 46,389 | 27.7 |
| 26th Mar. | 42,494 | 21.7 | 3,412 | 14.6 | 38,154 | 20.3 | 200,032 | 17.2 | 47,575 | 28.4 |
| 23rd Apr. | 44,145 | 22.5 | 3,276 | 14.0 | 39,801 | 21.2 | 208,891 | 17.9 | 50,293 | 30.0 |
| 21st May | 46,052 | 23.5 | 3,085 | 13.2 | 38,571 | 20.5 | 245,590 | 21.1 | 53,758 | 32.1 |
| 25th June | 51,472 | 26.3 | 3,593 | 15.4 | 38,504 | 20.5 | 299,449 | 25.7 | 52,860 | 31.6 |
| 23rd July | 52,987 | 27.7 | 4,693 | 21.2 | 43,493 | 24.4 | 324,932 | 29.1 | 53,936 | 32.2 |
| 20th Aug. | 52,922 | 27.7 | 4,407 | 19.9 | 43,509 | 24.4 | 296,480 | 26.6 | 52,452 | 31.3 |
| 24th Sept. | 58,466 | 30.6 | 4,292 | 19.4 | 39,281 | 22.0 | 251,080 | 22.5 | 53,741 | 32.1 |
| 22nd Oct. | 63,711 | 33.3 | 3,622 | 16.4 | 40,212 | 22.5 | 280,010 | 25.1 | 52,657 | 31.5 |
| 20th Nov. | 62,667 | 32.7 | 3,917 | 17.7 | 40,426 | 22.6 | 282,293 | 25.3 | 54,325 | 32.4 |
| 17th Dec. | 58,265 | 30.4 | 4,224 | 19.1 | 35,337 | 19.8 | 212,984 | 19.1 | 51,142 | 30.5 |
| 1929. | ||||||||||
| 21st Jan. | 53,323 | 27.9 | 4,136 | 18.7 | 36,115 | 20.2 | 213,214 | 19.1 | 52,104 | 31.1 |
| 25th Feb. | 49,998 | 26.1 | 3,572 | 16.1 | 35,334 | 19.8 | 170,435 | 15.3 | 55,656 | 33.2 |
| 25th Mar. | 47,698 | 24.9 | 2,778 | 12.5 | 31,370 | 17.6 | 147,534 | 13.2 | 52,849 | 31.6 |
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