§ Mr. BATEYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he can give the yearly amounts paid for unemployment insurance from the British to the Northern Irish Exchequer each year since 1925?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThe amounts paid from the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom to the Exchequer of Northern Ireland under the Unemployment Insurance (Northern Ireland Agreement) Acts, 1926 and 1929, have been as follow for the years in question:
£ 1925–26 … 685,000 1926–27 … 866,473 1927–28 … 323,937 1928–29 … 487,241 1929–30 … 334,804 1930–31 … 517,302 1931–32 … 200,852 1932–33 … Nil 1933–34 (to date) … 8,885* (* This payment was an adjustment in respect of the year 1931–32.)