§ Mr. Spriggsasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance how many workers have been refused unemployment benefit as a result of Regulation 6(1)(e)(i) in each year since 1955 and up to the latest convenient date; and how many of these were claims which failed in the St. Helens constituency in the same period.
§ Miss HerbisonI regret that the precise information requested is not available.
The numbers of claims disallowed under the Unemployment and Sickness Benefit Regulation referred to—the holiday rule—for the years 1955 to 1964 are as follows:
180W Separate figures are not available for the St. Helens constituency but the number of claims disallowed in 1964 under this Regulation by the St. Helens Employment Exchange was seven.
Year Number of claims disallowed Year Number of claims disallowed 1955 3,698 1960 3,117 1956 3,943 1961 2,620 1957 3,984 1962 4,535 1958 4,435 1963 4,354 1959 4,745 1964 3,394