Unemployment Benefit, The Hartlepools

HC Deb 01 March 1960 vol 618 c132W

Commander Kerans

asked the Minister of Labour how much was paid in unemployment benefit in the years 1958 and 1959 in the Hartlepools.

Mr. Heath

Payments of unemployment benefit to persons registered at the Hartlepools and West Hartlepools Employment Exchanges in 1958 totalled £146,577. The amount paid in 1959 was £219,846. Owing to the incidence of statistical dates, the figures for 1958 include 13 days in December, 1957.