asked the Minister of Labour (1) how many ex-trainees who have completed courses in Government training centres as bricklayers, plasterers, tilers, carpenters and joiners, wood machinists, plumbers, painters and decorators, respectively, were registered as unemployed in the city of Portsmouth on 7th March 1947, or the nearest convenient date thereto;

(2) the number of those registered as unemployed in the City of Portsmouth at 7th March, 1947, or the nearest convenient date thereto, together with the percentage of the City's population that this figure expresses; and the average figure for unemployment within the city for the years 1918–39, together with the percentage that this figure represents of the city's average population during this period.

The number of insured persons registered as unemployed at the Portsmouth Employment Exchange and Juvenile Employment Bureau, at 5th March, 1947, was 2,276, or 3 per cent. of the insured population at July, 1946. I am having the rest of the available information extracted, and I will write to my hon. and gallant Friend.