§ Mr. Pearsonasked the Minister of Labour the numbers signing the unemployment register in the Pontypridd exchange area, also Tonyrefail and Llanharan, on the days on which statistics were taken in each quarter during 1939 and to the nearest convenient date, and giving the numbers receiving statutory
Date. Pontypridd. Tonyrefail. Unemployed on Register. Claims admitted for benefit. Applications authorised for assistance allowances. Unemployed on Register. Claims admitted for benefit. Applications authorised for assistance allowances. 1939 16th January … 4,393 925 2,855 1,192 397 690 13th February … 5,951 2,043 2,873 1,128 317 706 13th March … … 4,064 859 2,708 944 248 606 17th April … … 4,235 1,122 2,599 983 290 584 15th May … … 3,904 833 2,483 929 220 597 12th June … … 3,639 705 2,419 920 239 566 10th July … … 3,488 667 2,341 913 233 583 14th August … 3,188 609 2,189 901 250 555 11th September … 3,408 Figures not available (see below). 868 Figures not available (see below). 16th October … 3,325 779 13th November … 3,188 762 11th December … 3,095 781 1940. 15th January … 3,021 818 Figures showing the numbers on the registers with claims admitted for benefit and allowances respectively, are not available for dates subsequent to 14th August, 1939. The following table, however, shows the numbers of payments of
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Date (Week ended). Pontypridd. Tonyrefail. Insurance Benefit. Assistance Allowances. Insurance Benefit. Assistance Allowances. 1939. 15th September … … … 673 2,129 226 542 13th October … … … 766 2,082 203 511 17th November … … … 813 1,988 165 473 15th December … … … 781 1,922 193 493 1940. 19th January … … … 836 1,894 233 482 and unemployment assistance allowances, separately?
§ Mr. E. BrownThe table below shows the numbers of unemployed persons, aged 14 and over, on the registers of the Pontypridd and Tonyrefail Employment Exchanges on one date in each month since January, 1939, and, so far as available, the numbers aged 16–64 with claims admitted for unemployment insurance benefit and applications authorised for unemployment assistance allowances. There is no separate Employment Exchange at Llanharan, and figures for that area are therefore not available.
insurance benefit and assistance allowances, respectively, made at these Employment Exchanges during one week of each month from September, 1939, to January, 1940:
1909WThe figures relating to assistance allowances exclude payments of unemployment allowances in supplementation of insurance benefit but include payments made under the Unemployment Assistance (Prevention and Relief of Distress) Regulations, 1939.
It should be observed that as the figures given in this table relate to payments made during the weeks specified, they are not strictly comparable with those given in the previous table, relating to the numbers of unemployed persons on the registers on one day of the week.