§ 53. Mr. GORDON MACDONALDasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons in the district supervised from the Wigan Employment Exchange who have had their unemployment benefits disallowed because they accepted a course of training in some occupation for which they received no remuneration and were not guaranteed work at the end of the course; and whether she will consider dealing with this kind of disallowance?
§ Miss BONDFIELDStatistics giving the information desired are not available. All disallowances for unemployment benefit are imposed by the statutory authorities, with whose decisions I cannot interfere.
§ 54. Mr. MACDONALDasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons in the area supervised from the Wigan Employment Exchange who have been offered a course of training, and the number that have accepted, during the year ended 31st May, 1931, specifying the number of females?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe training facilities afforded by the Department 1432 were brought to the notice of all unemployed persons who appear to be suitable, and I cannot therefore give statistics of the number to whom they were offered. In the period in question 156 applications were received from women under the scheme for women's training, of which 49 were accepted, and 386 from men for training at Government instructional centres, of which 222 were accepted. The total number required to attend transfer instructional centres, in-eluding those who applied voluntarily, during the period was 512.