§ 68. Mr. MALLABY-DEELEYasked the Minister of Labour how many women are receiving unemployment pay from the Employment Bureau in Edgware Road; how many applications have been received there for women, especially domestic servants; and whether any women have been refused unemployment pay because they have not taken up offers made to them by the Bureau?
§ Mr. WARDLEThe number of women who received unemployment pay from the Employment Exchange in Edgware Road, 2712 during the week ended April 4th, was 2,730. The number of vacancies for women on the books of this Exchange at the same date was 1,677, including 1,219 for domestic service; 409 of these vacancies are for day girls and charwomen, and 732 for resident domestic servants. The number of women whose donations have been suspended at this particular Exchange for refusing suitable work since the commencement of the scheme is 674.