Unemployment, Scotland (Cost)

HC Deb 12 July 1960 vol 626 cc102-3W

The Earl of Dalkeith

asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what was the cost to the taxpayer in 1959 of Scottish unemployment, in terms of unemployment benefit and National Assistance.

Miss Hornsby-Smith

The cost to the National Insurance Fund of unemployment benefit was just under £10 million, and to the Exchequer for National Assistance about £4½ million.