§ Mr. BANFIELDasked the Minister of Labour by whose instructions the managers of Employment Exchanges at Bilston, Wednesbury, Darlaston and Tipton interviewed unemployed men signing on at these Exchanges and invited them to volunteer under the voluntary scheme for the reclamation of waste land 573W at Bilston, Staffordshire, by which men on transitional benefit were required to volunteer to work 40 hours per week for an additional 2s. per week to their Employment Exchange allowance; and whether he will take steps to institute a scheme for the reclamation of waste land in the Black Country by which the local authorities can pay the standard rates to unemployed men for this work?
§ Sir H. BETTERTON, pursuant to his supplementary reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th November, 1933; col. 289,] supplied the following leaflet.