§ Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Labour the number of applications for extended benefit which were disallowed after having been recommended by the local employment committee at the Walworth Road (Borough) Exchange during the months of September. October, November and December, respectively?
§ Mr. BETTERTONThe answer is three, these being all in the month of November, 1925.
§ Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Labour how many women entitled to standard unemployment benefit have been refused such benefit at the Walworth Road (Borough) Exchange from 1st January, 1925, to the latest convenient date, also the number of women refused extended benefit during the same period, stating separately the number refused benefit as not genlinely seeking work together with the totals for each month?
§ Mr. BETTERTONI am unable to state the number of women claiming standard unemployment benefit who have had such benefit reused at the Borough Employment Exchange during 1925. The total numbers of applications by women for extended benefit -.recommended for disallowance by the Borough (Walworth Road) Local Employment Committee in each month from the beginning of 1925 and the numbers recommended for disallowance on the ground that the 861W applicants were not making every reasonable effort to obtain suitable employment
BOROUGH (WALWORTH ROAD) LOCAL EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE. Period ended Number of weeks in period. Applications by women for Extended Benefit recommended for the disallowance. All reasons. Not making every reasonable effort to obtain suitable employment or not willing to accept suitable employment. 1925. 12th January … … … … 5 281 190 9th February … … … … 4 217 130 9th March … … … … 4 229 152 13th April … … … … 5 497 312 11th May … … … … 4 340 251 8th June … … … … 4 224 192 13th July … … … … 5 162 59 10th August … … … … 4 45 18 24th August … … … … 2 96 19 14th September … … … 3 190 39 12th October … … … … 4 212 59 16th November … … … 5 178 81 14th December … … … 4 174 75 11th January, 1926 … … … 4 115 48 Total … … … … 57 2,960 1,625