§ Sir E. CECILasked the Minister of Labour the total expenditure from taxes in connection with the Unemployment Insurance Acts in the year ending 31st March, 1924, including administrative costs and amounts borrowed under the Acts; and the total expenditure from rates, including loans, on local schemes to relieve unemployment in the same period?
§ Mr. SHAWThe total expenditure from taxes in connection with the Unemployment Insurance Acts in the year ended 31st March, 1924, was represented by the contribution to the Unemployment insurance Fund and amounted to about £12,800,000. The whole cost of administration was borne by the Fund and none by the Exchequer. No further amounts were borrowed but, on the contrary, debt to the amount of £6,390,000 was repaid. I understand from my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health that it is not possible to state the expenditure from rates on local schemes to relieve unemployment.