§ Mr. CECIL WILSONasked the Minister of Labour the number of claims for benefit made at the Sheffield and Attercliffe Exchanges, respectively, during the years 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924; how
B,—Claims referred to the Sheffield and Attercliffe Committee. — Referred. Rejected. 1st Special Period (April, 1921, to 2nd November, 1921) No particulars available. 2nd Special Period (3rd November, 1921, to 5th April, 1922) 90,997 2,554 3rd Special Period (6th April, 1922, to 1st November, 1922) 55,955 6,576 4th Special Period (2nd November, 1922, to 17th October, 1923) 24,213 3,298 1st Benefit Year (18th October, 1923, to 31st July, 1924) 57,639 3,015 1st Individual Benefit Year (part of) (1st August, 1924, up to 9th February, 1925). 39,377 5,807 Owing to changes made by the Unemployment Insurance Act of 1st August, 1924, it is not possible to give comparable figures of reasons for rejections prior
662Wmany of such claims were referred to committees; how many were rejected for the reason that the applicants were not making reasonable efforts to obtain suitable employment; how many for the reason that they were not willing to accept suitable employment; and how-many on the ground that they had not had a reasonable period of insurable employment since December, 1919, or subsequent period.
§ Mr. BETTERTONThe following table gives all the information available in respect of the number of claims to benefit, at the exchanges referred to:
A.—Fresh Claims to Benefit. — Sheffield. Attercliffe. 1920 (12th November to 31st December). 2,834 2,094 1921 106,037 42,929 1922* 42,807 20,328 1923* 70,514 40,528 1924 105,743 80,988 *From 10th January, 1922, to 23rd July 1922, the figures do not include "repeat, claims," i.e., claims in which a fresh waiting period is not required. Statistics in regard to the number of claims referred to committees can only be given by periods coinciding with the special periods or benefit years. In connection with the following table it should be noted that the claims then included were taken from (he total register for the time being, and were not specially related to the. fresh claims included above in table A.
to that date. The grounds of rejection between 1st August, 1924, and 9th February, 1925, are as under.
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C.—Analysis of Grounds of Rejection of Application to Benefit. Not normally insurable 695 Insurable employment not likely to be available 344 Not reasonable period of insurable employment 1,772 Not making reasonable effort to obtain employment 861 Failure to attend hearing 2,135