§ Captain BULLOCKasked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed British seamen in each period of six months during the last two years, and the numbers whose part periods of work have enabled them actually to claim unemployment benefit?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe following table gives the average number of wholly unemployed seamen of all nationalities on the Registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain in each period of six months during the last two years.
Period. Number. July-December, 1928 16,119 January-June, 1929 16,504 July-December, 1929 17,397 January-June, 1930 22,037 Separate statistics are not available in respect of seamen of British nationality, nor am I able to give the numbers whose part periods of work have enabled them to claim unemployment benefit.
940WFund since its establishment, by employers, employés and the Exchequer, together with the amount of benefit paid each year during the same period, are approximately as follow: