§ 50. Mr. MAINWARINGasked the Minister of Labour the number of non-claimants either of unemployment insurance benefit or unemployment assistance registered at each of the employment 27 exchanges within the administrative counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead)As the reply includes a table of figures, I will, if I may, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the reply:
§ The following table shows, for each Employment Exchange in the administrative counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth, the number of persons, insured and uninsured, on the registers at 22nd June, 1936, who were not applying, or were not entitled to apply, for benefit or unemployment allowances.
| Employment Exchange. | Number. |
| Glamorgan Administrative County. | |
| Aberdare | 971 |
| Aberkenfig | 53 |
| Bargoed | 414 |
| Barry | 218 |
| Bridgend | 49 |
| Caerphilly | 404 |
| Clydach | 55 |
| Cymmer | 77 |
| Ferndale | 455 |
| Gorseinon | 122 |
| Llantwit Major | 79 |
| Maesteg | 337 |
| Mountain Ash | 385 |
| Neath | 280 |
| Ogmore Vale | 52 |
| Penarth | 63 |
| Pontydawe | 51 |
| Pontardulais | 48 |
| Pontylottyn | 168 |
| Pontyclun | 114 |
| Pontycymmer | 45 |
| Pontypridd | 1,016 |
| Porth | 458 |
| Porthcawl | 18 |
| Port Talbot | 335 |
| Resolven | 41 |
| Taffs Well | 65 |
| Tonypandy | 795 |
| Tonyrefail | 110 |
| Treorchy | 419 |
| Ystalyfera | 156 |
| Monmouth Administrative County. | |
| Abergavenny | 60 |
| Abertillery | 451 |
| Blackwood | 250 |
| Blaenavon | 173 |
| Blaina | 217 |
| Caldicot | 36 |
| Chepstow | 119 |
| Ebbw Vale | 423 |
| Monmouth | 38 |
| Newbridge | 194 |
| Pontnewydd | 101 |
| Pontypool | 367 |
| Risca | 205 |
| Tredegar | 281 |
| Usk | 21 |
§ The above figures do not include claimants on the registers, numbering 138 in Glamorgan and 38 in Monmouthshire, who had been disqualified for short periods, usually not exceeding six weeks, from receiving unemployment benefit, and 224 persons on the registers in Glamorgan and 136 in Monmouthshire applying for unemployment allowances whose needs were held not to justify payment.
§ Of the numbers included in the above table, totalling 7,853 for Glamorgan and 2,936 for Monmouthshire, a large proportion (4,827 in Glamorgan and 1,495 in Monmouthshire) were boys and girls under 16 years of age.