§ Mr. GRUNDYasked the Minister of Labour the amount of money spent in wages and salaries, including the chairman, of the Unemployment Assistance Board; the amount paid to persons deemed to be in need; and the number of applications refused on the ground that they were not in need of assistance for the latest date available?
§ Mr. E. BROWNThe rate of expenditure in wages and salaries including the chairman and other members of the board, out of the Vote for the Unemployment Assistance Board, in respect of staff,
334Wand the comparative figures for each of the last five years?
§ Mr. E. BROWNThe following table gives the information desired:
§ Mr. E. BROWNThe following table shows the numbers of persons, aged 14 and over, insured and uninsured, registered as unemployed at the Heaton and Walker Employment Exchanges and in England at 27th May, 1929, 26th October, 1931, and 23rd September, 1935, the latest date for which figures are at present available:
and out of the Consolidated Fund, in respect of members of the board, is £1,275,000 per annum; the amount paid to persons deemed to be in need is at the rate of £42,500,000 per annum; the number of persons on the registers of the Employment Exchanges on 23rd September, 1935, whose needs were held to be such as not to justify any payment was 33,633.