§ Mr. T. Smithasked the Minister of Labour the cost of abolishing the maximum of 30s. per week payable under the agricultural unemployment insurance scheme?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe extent to which the amount of unemployment benefit, paid to applicants under the agricultural scheme, is reduced owing to this restriction would vary according to the level of unemployment and other factors; during the past 12 months the reduction was about £6,000. This sum does not necessarily represent the full cost that would be entailed by the abolition of the restriction, and there are, of course, wider considerations involved in any such proposal.