§ Mr. GRAHAM WHITEasked the Minister of Labour the number of claims disallowed at the Birkenhead Employment Exchange on the ground that applicants were not normally in insurable employment in the following periods: 1st January to 1st June, 1927, 1st January to 1st June, 1928, 1st January to 1st June, 1929, and 1st January to 1st June, 1930?
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§ Miss BONDFIELD, pursuant to her reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th July, 1930, cols. 591–2, Vol. 241], supplied the following statement:
Statistics of the disallowance of claims to benefit made at individual Employment Exchanges are not available in respect of dates prior to 19th April, 1928. The figures for the periods in question since that date, so far as available, are as follow:
Disallowances on the ground "not normally insurable and will not normally seek to obtain a livelihood by means of insurable employment" in respect of claims to benefit made at Birkenhead Employment Exchange.
Period and Number of Claims Disallowed.
19th April, 1928, to 11th June, 1928–19.
15th January, 1929, to 10th June, 1929–37.
14th January, 1930, to 12th March, 1930—Separate figures not available.*
13th March, 1930, to 9th June, 1930–93.
* The total number of disallowances on the grounds "not normally insurable" and "not a reasonable period of insurable employment during the previous two years" was 165.
During the period 15th January, 1929, to 12th March, 1930, there were on the registers an average of 406 persons whose claims had been disallowed under transitional conditions, as compared with an average of 57 in the period 13th March, to 9th June, 1930.