Benefit.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 1 August 1923.

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Photo of Mr Henry Snell Mr Henry Snell , Woolwich East

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asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that when boards of guardians in the Metropolitan area inquire from Employment Exchanges of the Ministry of Labour for information in relation to cases applying for relief on account of unemployment they are frequently informed that relief has been refused because the applicant is not genuinely seeking work; that they find that the applicant himself has not been informed of this at the time that the decision is arrived at by the Unemployment Exchange Committee, and that difficulties arise because no record is kept at the Exchange of the facts upon which the decision is based; and whether he will give instructions for records to be kept of the grounds upon which applications for unemployment benefit are refused?