Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 4 Chwefror 1947.
Records come to us from time to time, but unless we make a special investigation we have no information as to why a person comes on to the register. By the time of the last return, unemployment in those areas had not risen to any great extent, because most of the time lost was through men being away for an odd day a week. In those cases, they did not sign on at the exchange.