HC Deb 28 May 1924 vol 174 c393
16. Mrs. WINTRINGHAM

asked the Minister of Labour whether, since the present scheme of financing Juvenile Unemployment Centres bears with hardship on the teachers for the purposes of the Superannuation Act, he will consider financing them through the Board of Education?

The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Trevelyan)

I have been asked to reply. The grant for Juvenile Unemployment Centres is made out of the Vote for the Relief of Unemployment. The question of making arrangements which would bring the financing of these Centres within the scope of the Vote of the Board of Education is one which I am discussing with my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour, but I am not in a position to make any announcement.

Mr. HOPE SIMPSON

Is it not a fact that these teachers are not entitled to he superannuated?

Mr. TREVELYAN

Yes.

27. Mr. GRAHAM WHITE

asked the Minister of Labour if there are any statistics available to show the average period of training received by unemployed young persons at juvenile unemployment centres?

The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Shaw)

I am afraid that I have no information other than that given to the hon. Member on 22nd May. I propose, however, to ask the local education authorities concerned whether they have kept any statistics of the kind which the hon. Member has in mind, and I will communicate the result of my inquiries to him.