§ Mr. BATEYasked the Minister of Labour (1) whether he can give the weekly expenditure of the Unemployment Assistance Board on the latest available date, and also the weekly expenditure in November, 1934;
(2) whether he can give the total numbers of persons in receipt of payments by the Unemployment Assistance Board in Great Britain at the latest available date, and also the numbers in November, 1934?
§ Mr. E. BROWNThe following table shows approximately the number of payments and the amounts paid by way of transitional payments and unemployment allowances, respectively, in the weeks ended 30th November, 1934, and 30th October, 1936:
of the Employment Exchanges in the county of Durham on the latest available date, and also the numbers in November, 1934?
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§ Mr. E. BROWNThe following table shows, for each Employment Exchange in the county of Durham, the numbers of separate weekly payments of unemployment allowances, during the week ended 30th October, 1936, and of transitional payments during the week ended 30th November, 1934:
Employment Exchange, Number of payments of unemployment allowances in week ended 30th October, 1936. Number of Transitional Payments made direct* through Employment Exchanges in week ended 30th November, 1934. Barnard Castle 63 130 Birtley 661 897 Bishop Auckland 3,145 3,755 Blaydon-on-Tyne 1,476 1,629 Chester-le-Street 1,412 1,764 Chop well 383 429 Cockfield 526 609 Consett 449 620 Crook 2,184 2,833 Darlington 1,437 2,262 Dunston-on-Tyne 615 772 Durham 1,910 2,441 East Boldon 704 579 Felling on-Tyne 1,455 1,829 Gainford 22 19 Gateshead 4,736 5,978 Hartlepool 989 1,620 Haswell 239 369 Horden 430 693 Houghton-le-Spring. 1,771 1,920 Jarrow and Hebburn. 3,260 5,509 Lanchester 441 671 Middleton-in-Teesdale. 34 75 Pallion 2,330 4,261 Seaham Harbour 1,273 2,209 Sedgefield 67 76 Shildon 1,201 1,464 South Shields 5,913 6,889 Southwick-on-Wear. 1,757 2,104 Spennymoor 1,953 1,967 Stanhope 134 59 Stanley 2,348 2,427 Stockton and Thornaby. 3,815 4,459 Sunderland 6,147 8,746 Washington Station. 734 808 West Hartlepool 2,958 4,348 Wingate 1,180 1,547 Wokingham 44 56 Total 60,196 78,823 * Figures are not available showing the numbers of transitional payments made through associations for these areas. The numbers, however, were small.