§ Colonel BURTONasked the Minister of Labour the amounts borrowed for the Unemployment Insurance Fund in each of the years 1921 to 1930?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe net amounts borrowed or repaid by the Unemployment Fund in each of the calendar years 1921 to 1930, excluding the shares of the debt attributable to Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State, have been as follow:
— Borrowed. Repaid. £ £ 1921 7,600,000 — 1922 8,013,480 — 1923 — 3,116,426 1924 — 7,403,505 1925 2,169,020 — 1926 15,377,431 — 1927 540,000 — 1928 8,540,000 — 1929 6,130,000 — 1930 to 29th November. 18,750,000 — The debt on 29th November, 1930, was£56,600,000.