§ 39. Major COHENasked the Minister of Labour what is the total number of ex-service men drawing unemployment benefit; and what percentage of that number are disabled?
§ The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Montague Barlow)At 23rd October there were 414,810 ex-service men on the live registers of Employment Exchanges, of whom 64,968 or 15.7 per cent, were classified as disabled, that is, in receipt of a disability pension. I have no reason to suppose that at the present time any considerable number of these are not in receipt of unemployment benefit, but exact figures are not available.