HC Deb 14 June 1948 vol 452 c14W
63. Mr. Prescott

asked the Minister of Labour how many European volunteer workers were, as at the last convenient date, unemployed, particularly in agriculture; and whether there is any difference in the rates of unemployment benefit in such circumstances for European volunteer workers as opposed to British subjects.

Mr. Ness Edwards

Separate figures regarding unemployed European volunteer workers are not available, but any who may become redundant in the job in which they are first placed are speedily re-allocated to other essential work, and the number unemployed at any particular time is negligible. The same rates of unemployment benefit apply to them as to British subjects.