ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS UPON NOTICE The following answers to questions upon notice were circulated: {:#subdebate-40-0} #### Commonwealth Employment Service: Former National Servicemen (Question No. 21) {: #subdebate-40-0-s0 .speaker-KIM} ##### Mr Lynch: asked the Minister for Labour, upon notice: {: type="1" start="1"} 0. How many former national servicemen sought the facilities of the Commonwealth Employment Service in seeking employment in 1972. 1. How many national servicemen were awaiting placement in employment at (a) 31st December 1972 and (b) 27th February 1973. 2. How many former national servicemen have sought the facilities of the Commonwealth Employment Service in finding suitable employment since 1st January 1973. {: #subdebate-40-0-s1 .speaker-2V4} ##### Mr Clyde Cameron:HINDMARSH, SOUTH AUSTRALIA · ALP -- The answer to the honourable member's question is as follows: {: type="1" start="1"} 0. During 1972, 1,786 unemployed former national servicemen registered for employment assistance at offices of the Commonwealth Employment Service. An additional 269 former national servicemen who were employed but who were seeking alternative employment also registered for assistance. 1. (a) The number of unemployed former national servicemen awaiting placement in employment at 29th December 1972 was 138. Former national servicemen who were already employed but were seeking alternative employment at the same date numbered 43. {: type="a" start="b"} 0. At 2nd March 1973 the corresponding numbers were 172 and 64, a total of 236. 2. At 2nd March 1973, 419 unemployed former national servicemen and 72 who were seeking alternative employment had sought the assistance of the Commonwealth Employment Service in obtaining suitable employment since the beginning of the year.