Mr. W. Joseph Stewartasked the Minister of Labour the number of persons who received unemployment allowances in transitional payments in Durham county during 1936 and 1937 and the amount paid each year?
§ Mr. E. Brownpursuant to his reply (OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th May, 1938; Vol. 336, col. 225) supplied the following statement:
Statistics showing the numbers of separate individuals who received unemployment allowances in these periods are not available. The average weekly numbers of payments of unemployment allowances (exclusive of allowances in supplementation of insurance benefit) made through Employment Exchanges in the county of Durham in 1936 and 1937 were 65,964 and 53,441 respectively. The approximate total amounts paid in unemployment allowances during these years were £4,484,001 in 1936 (53 weeks) and £3,613,233 in 1937 (52 weeks).