§ Mr. WRIGHTasked the Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health the number of able-bodied unemployed in the.Rutherglen Burghs on the 1st of March, 1922 and 1993, respectively; the total cost to the respective parish councils in the said burghs: the number of persons given employment under the various Government schemes; and will he indicate any Government proposals for giving relief to the acute destitution due to the prolonged period of unemployment in the district?
§ Captain ELLIOTI am informed that the numbers of unemployed persons on the live register of the Employment Exchange at Rutherglen on 28th February, 1922, and 26th February, 1923, respectively, were 1,814 and 1,416, of whom 1,3:30 and 1,110, respectively, were men. The total cost of unemployed relief paid by the Parish Councils of Rutherglen, Cambuslang and Blantyre up to the 3rd March, 1923, was approximately 2,47,000. Information as to the amount for the Parish Council of Carmunnock is not available, but its inclusion would not substantially increase the foregoing total. I am informed that the number of men employed in the period ending 2nd March, 1923, on schemes in the area which had been submitted by local authorities and approved by the Unemployment Grants Committee was 18. As 751W regards the measures which the Government have taken for the relief of distress due to unemployment, I would refer the hon. Member to the statements made by my right hon. Friends the Ministers of Labour and of Health on the 8th of March.