MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE, MONTAGU HOUSE, [M.H.590 (Stats)] WHITEHALL, S.W.1. Copy of a letter dated 15th August, 1940 from the Minister of Labour to the Minister without Portfolio. Dear Arthur, You wrote to me on 5th July to ask for information about the number of bricklayers employed by Government Departments on Government contracts, employed by local authorities on A.R.P. work, employed on private building, and unemployed. I am sorry that I have not been able to send you an earlier reply, but this is because I have been making enquiries through the Ministry of Home Security into the possibility of obtaining a more accurate estimate than is at present available about the undoubtedly very large number of bricklayers employed on A.