HC Deb 26 October 1920 vol 133 c1590W
Mr. PENNEFATHER

asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that persons who live some distance from an Employment Exchange have difficulty in ascertaining their rights or liabilties in connection with the regulations as to unemployment insurance which come into I force on the 8th November next, owing to the fact that many post offices are only supplied with a single copy of the explanatory leaflets; and if he will take steps to provide every post office with a sufficient number of copies of these explanatory leaflets to enable them to be issued to applicants who desire to study them more carefully than can be done on the premises of a post office?

Sir M. BARLOW

I have been in consultation with my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General on this point. Arrangements are being made for supplies of explanatory leaflets to be available at sub-post offices in rural centres which are distant from any local office of the Ministry of Labour.