§ Mr. Bateyasked the Minister of Labour whether he can state the total amount of money paid from the Unemployment Insurance Fund and by the Unemployment Assistance Board and by the public assistance committees to unemployed persons in the county of Durham since the year 1922, up to the latest available date?
§ Mr. E. Brown,pursuant to his reply (OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th December, 1936; cols. 2145–6, Vol. 318), supplied the following statement:
777WThe following Table shows (a) the approximate amounts paid in unemployment benefit direct through Employment Exchanges in the County of Durham in the years 1922 to 193o and 1936, and (b) the amount paid in unemployment allowances through the same Exchanges in 1936:
Period. Unemployment Benefit. Unemployment Allowances. £ £ 1922 (Calendar year) 2,339,593 — 1923 (Calendar year) 2,015,498 — 1924 (Calendar year) 2,124,098 — 1925 (Calendar year) 4,225,985 — 1926 (Calendar year) 4,310,679 — 1927 (52 weeks) 3,677,052 — 1928 (52 weeks) 3,486,901 — 1929 (52 weeks) 2,702,951 — 1930 (53 weeks) 4,644,732 — 1936 (53 weeks) 1,545,011 4,484,001 NOTES:
- (1) The above figures do not include payments made through Associations of which a geographical analysis is not available. The number of these, however, is relatively small.
- (2) Information relating to the years 1931 to 1935 was given on 4th February and 29th May, 1936, in reply to questions by the Hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring.
- (3) The figures for 1936 do not include payments of benefit under the Agricultural Scheme.