§ 37. Mr. BARKERasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons who received unemployment benefit at the Blaina, Abertillery and Crumlin Employment Exchanges for the week ending 17th April, 1926, and the number receiving benefit at the same Exchanges on the corresponding week of 1925?
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDI am unable to state the number of persons in receipt of benefit, but at 12th April, the latest date for which figures are available, the numbers of persons with claims to benefit current were: Blaina, 417; Abertillery, 1,369; and Crumlin, 547. The corresponding figures at 13th April, 1925, were: Blaina, 2,111; Abertillery, 4,960; and Crumlin, 1,202.