§ Mr. MABANEasked the Minister of Labour whether he can give statistics to show the total payments of the unemployment fund for the financial year ended 31st March, 1933, to correspond with the figure of £122,833,000 shown in the last column of yearly total on page 106 of Cmd. 4233 and also the monthly average of unemployed for that year?
Mr. HUDSONThe accounts of the Unemployment Fund for the financial year ended 31st March, 1933, are not yet completed, but the corresponding figure is about £117,870,000. This includes about £54,000,000 in respect of transitional payments and their administration. A count of the number of persons registered as unemployed is made once a month; the following are the figures for each month of the financial year 1932–33:
25th April, 1932 … 2,652,181 23rd May, 1932 … 2,741,306 27th June, 1932 … 2,747,343 25th July, 1932 … 2,811,782 22nd August, 1932 … 2,859,828 26th September, 1932 … 2,858,011 24th October, 1932 … 2,747,006 21st November, 1932 … 2,799,806 19th December, 1932 … 2,723,287 23rd January, 1933 … 2,903,065 20th February, 1933 … 2,856,638 20th March, 1933 … 2,776,184 The average for the whole year was 2,789,703.