§ 38. Mr. G. WHITEasked the Under-Secretary for Labour if he will state, as on the last convenient date, the number of persons in receipt of unemployment benefit who were receiving supplementary relief under the Poor Law?
§ Mr. BETTERTONPeriodic statistics are not kept of the number of claimants to benefit who are also in receipt of Poor Relief, but a special analysis of a selection of 10,000 claims to benefit taken early in November showed that at that date 11 per cent. of the male claimants whose claims to unemployment benefit were analysed were also in receipt of Poor Relief.