Mr. David Adamsasked the Minister of Labour whether, regarding the 100,000 men under 30 years of age who are in receipt of Unemployment Assistance Board allowances, he will supply approximate percentages of the four groups into which the Board divides those in receipt of allowances, namely, those who are handicapped by physical defects; 1524W are victims of blind-alley employments; are found by the advisory committees to be unemployed of their own will; or who have fallen into such a condition that they make no personal effort to obtain work; and what remedial action he proposes in this matter?
§ Mr. E. BrownI regret that more precise information than is given on pages 46–49 of the Board's Annual Report for 1938 respecting the various categories mentioned by the hon. Member is not available. So far as the second part of the question is concerned, I would, as regards physical disabilities, refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the question he put to me on 29th June, and, as regards blind-alley employment, to the reply to a question put to me by the hon. Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Brooke) on 5th June. As regards the remaining category I cannot add to what is said on page 48 of the Board's last Annual Report.