§ Mr. GRIFFITHSasked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that unemployed persons in Llandudno complain that insured persons are deprived of proper representation on the rota committees; that the panel from which these representatives are drawn is not constituted in accordance with the Acts; that the representatives on the panel are seldom called to the meetings, with the result that at these meetings the employers are overwhelmingly represented; that acts of incivility on the part of the officials at the Exchange are frequent; that applicants for extended benefit do not get sufficient notice when they are to appear before the rota committee, and thus are prejudiced in the presentation of their case; and that on the 23rd instant there was no labour representative present on the rota committee, and a request that a workers' representative on the panel should be allowed to sit was refused, with the result that the applicants for benefit declined to appear before the committee; and whether he will cause full inquiry to be made into these complaints and arrange for a further hearing of the applications for benefit refused at the meeting on the 23rd instant?
§ Mr. BETTERTONI am having inquiries made, and will let the hon. Member know the result as soon as possible.