§ Mr. BATEYasked the Minister of Labour the number of applicants in the county of Durham who have been refused unemployment benefit since the passing of the 1929 Act on the grounds that they were not normally employed in insurable employment?
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§ Miss BONDFIELD,pursuant to her reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 31st July, 1930, Col. 673, Vol. 242] supplied the following statement:
During the period 13th March to 14th July, 1930, out of 168,532 fresh and renewal claims to benefit made at Employment Exchanges in the County of Durham the claims of 2,888 men and 1,609 women were disallowed by Courts of Referees on the ground "not normally insurable and will not normally seek to obtain livelihood by means of insurable employment." The disallowances include claims made at Northallerton, Richmond, Thirsk and Prudhoe which are outside County Durham but are within the area served by Courts of Referees in that County. Statistics of disallowances are only kept for the areas covered by Courts of Referees, and generally these are not coterminous with the areas of boroughs or counties.