HC Deb 10 May 1922 vol 153 cc2174-5
27. Mr. WALTER SMITH

askd the Minister of Labour if he will lay upon the Table of the House a copy of any regulations, instructions, or recommendations issued to local employment committees in connection with the administration of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922?

Dr. MACNAMARA

I am arranging to place in the library copies of the memoranda issued to the local employment committees in connection with the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922, and of certain earlier memoranda to which reference is made therein.

Mr. G. BARNES

Has the right hon. Gentleman done anything to embody in any of these regulations provisions for improving the status of the committees in accordance with the recommendations made by the Committee over which I had the honour of presiding?

Dr. MACNAMARA

These are rules and regulations for the administration of the Insurance Acts. I do not think the status of the committees arises.