§ 72. Mr. Haleasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance the total amount being paid from the National Insurance Fund for unemployment benefit in a period of twelve months prior to September, 1951; and what is the total for the twelve months to the most recent convenient date after the 1951 figures have been adjusted to the rates payable today.
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§ Miss PittThe total expenditure on unemployment benefit in the twelve months ending September, 1951, was£14,133,000 Adjusted to the rates of benefit payable today, this would be equivalent to about£27½million. The provisional figure for expenditure on unemployment benefit for the last financial year ending March, 1958, is£25,374,000; adjusted to current benefit rates this would be equivalent to about£30 million.
§ 73. Mr. Haleasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance the present rate of unemployment benefit paid, under his regulations, to a married worker who has no other dependent relatives and whose wife is not gainfully employed when he is employed for three days a week in a mill with a normal working week of five, five and a half, and six days, respectively.