asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce to state the number of unemployed registered at the Labour Exchanges for the weeks ended June 27th, 1931; July 25th, 1931; August 29th, 1931; September 26th, 1931, and October 31st, 1931.

The numbers of persons registered as unemployed at all the local offices of the Department on the following dates are :—29th June, 1931, 21,617; 27th July, 1931, 21,792; 31st August, 1931, 21,081; 28th September, 1931, 23,411; 2nd November, 1931, 26,353. These are the dates nearest to those in the question for which figures are available.