HC Deb 25 February 1932 vol 262 cc575-6W
Mr. McGOVERN

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the present amount of the loan by the Post Office Savings Bank to the Unemployment Insurance Fund?

Major ELLIOT

The figure is £74,158,000.

the total number of unemployed dealt with under the transitional provisions; the percentage for the whole country disallowed payment under those provisions; the percentage disallowed in Scotland, Birmingham, Staffordshire, and Walsall, respectively; and, in these areas also, the average reduction financially in each case dealt with?

Sir H. BETTERTON

Statistics giving an analysis of the determinations made by public assistance committees on applications for transitional payments are available only in respect of the total number of determinations made, including revisions and renewals, and cannot be given in respect of the number of separate individuals concerned. The following table gives the information available for the period up to 23rd January, 1932.