HC Deb 05 December 1938 vol 342 c880W
Mr. Kirby

asked the Minister of Health whether he will state, in terms of money and percentages, the amount of State aid, in relation to the amount raised by rates, and the total expenditure on rate-aided services in Birmingham, Durham County, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester during the last financial year?

Mr. Elliot

The particulars for the four areas in England are given below. As regards Glasgow I would refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland.

and the number registered as unemployed on the 31st October last, in the Liverpool City, Docks, Garston, and Bootle exchange areas?

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The approximate number of insured persons, aged 14–64, whose unemployment books were exchanged, in July, 1938, at all the Employment Exchanges in the Liverpool, Bootle and Garston area, was 415,670, and the number of insured persons of these ages recorded as unemployed at the same Exchanges on 17th October, 1938, was 73,184.