§ Mr. BAKERasked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the number of cases in which decisions of the Eastville (Bristol) Unemployment Committee not to grant unemployment benefit have been reversed as the result of representations made to the Minister, he will consider the possibility of paying the arrears clue to such injured persons; and whether in order to prevent a recurrence of the difficulties which have arisen, he will reorganise the committee or take such other steps as may be necessary to secure the proper administration of the Regulations?
Miss BONDFTELDA number of applications for benefit at Eastville, where disallowance had been recommended have been again placed before the local employment committee, who have now in some cases recommended payment. It is not, however, the practice on reconsideration to pay eel-wilt back to the date of the original application, and the changed recommendation is, in many cases, due to altered circumstances There is no reason to suppose that the local employment committee does not satisfactorily carry out its functions. There must naturally be cases, from time to time, in which employment committees have to reconsider their recommendations.