§ 56. Mr. WHITEasked the Minister of Labour whether it is his intention to institute an inquiry into the relation of rates of unemployment benefit, unemployment allowances, and the local wages rates and anomalies resulting therefrom?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead)Certain suggestions on this subject were made by the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee and by the Unemployment Assistance Board in their reports for last year. My right hon. Friend is not satisfied that a formal inquiry at the present time would be likely to produce useful results. The matter is, however, one which will be kept under observation in the of day-to-day administration,