§ Mr. PENNEFATHERasked the Minister of Labour the number of occasions during any given period on which unemployment benefit has been refused to women suitable for domestic service on the grounds that they had refused to accept suitable employment which had been offered them?
§ Dr. MACNAMARANo separate record is kept of the number of cases in which benefit is disallowed to women for refusing offers of domestic service, but I may inform my hon. Friend that of 24,829 disallowances of benefit to women by the chief insurance officer during the quarter ended 31st January, 1922, 6,373 were for refusal to accept suitable employment offered to them.