§ 33. Mr. MORLEYasked the Minister of Labour the percentage of applicants who were refused unemployment benefit during the year 1930–31, and the corresponding percentage for the year 1928–29?
§ Miss BONDFIELDStatistics are not available of the number of separate individuals who have had a claim to benefit disallowed within a given period. During the 12 months ended 8th June, 1931, 13,179,231 fresh and renewal claims to benefit were made at Employment Exchanges in Great Britain and 674,835 claims were disallowed by Court of Referees. In the 12 months ended 70th June, 1929, the number of fresh and renewal claims made was 9,805,421 and the number of disallowances was 675,098. These figures give ratios of 5.1 per cent. in 1930–31 and 6.9 per cent. in 1028–29.