§ Mr. TILLETTasked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the case of a youth named Jackson, of 21, Lyndhurst Road, Peckham, S.E.15, who signed on at the Camberwell Exchange, but whose claim to unemployment benefit has been rejected on the ground that he was not attending continuation school; whether he is aware 1348W that he was sent to the Borough Polytechnic for three years, leaving at the age of 16 years 8 months, after leaving elementary school at the age of 13 years and 8 months, and that after this he attended the Polytechnic three full nights weekly until completing the courses on his subjects; and will he consider an alteration of the law in order to meet such cases as this?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe ordinary rule applying to boys and girls under 18 in towns in which Juvenile Unemployment Centres exist is that attendance at a Centre is required as a condition of drawing unemployment benefit. From the particulars given in the question I assume that Jackson refused to attend a Centre, and in that event his benefit was properly disallowed; but I will make inquiry into the circumstances and will let my hon. Friend know the result.