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Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment.

– in the House of Commons on 6 February 1929.

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    16. asked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been called to the inability of a colliery company in North Nottinghamshire, near Doncaster, and of the Nine Mile Point colliery, in...

  • Transferred Workers, London. (2 speeches)

    17. asked the Minister of Labour what arrangements are being made to prevent the men employed in the Royal Parks, on completion of the present temporary employment, being left stranded in London?

  • Insurance Fund. (5 speeches)

    21. asked the Minister of Labour what is the present indebtedness of the Unemployment Fund to the Exchequer?

  • Aged Workers. (5 speeches)

    22. asked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider introducing legislation to alter the provision under which a person who reaches the age of 65, and is not qualified for the old age...

  • Rubber Industry (Insured Workers). (2 speeches)

    23. asked the Minister of Labour what proportion of the insured persons registered as belonging to the rubber industry are engaged in the manufacture of tyres?

  • Statistics. (2 speeches)

    24. asked the Minister of Labour for the latest available dates, the number of persons on the live register of the Employment Exchanges who were in receipt of benefit; and the number not in...

  • BENEFIT (Ma. H. ELLIS). (6 speeches)

    27. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that Herbert Ellis was refused benefit for six weeks at the Partick Exchange, Glasgow, on or about 15th December, 1928, for alleged not going to a...

  • Benefit (Unpaid Work). (4 speeches)

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  • Hull Employment Exchanges. (4 speeches)

    32. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in the new Employment Exchange premises shortly to be opened in Hull, there is inside accommodation for insured workers having business at the Exchange...

  • Dockers, Hull (Benefit Payment). (9 speeches)

    33. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that at the Hull Employment Exchanges unemployment benefit is only paid to dockers on Fridays, and that, in consequence, a man who has obtained...

  • Newcastxe-on-Tyne. (2 speeches)

    34. asked the Minister of Labour what is the number of unemployed in Newcastle-on-Tyne; and what is the percentage of unemployment there among insured workers?

  • Transfer of Workers. (9 speeches)

    35. asked the Minister of Labour what conditions have to exist before an area can be regarded as having a permanent surplus of labour for purposes of the industrial transference scheme?

  • Bethnal Green. (10 speeches)

    37. asked the Minister of Labour whether it is possible to give the figures of the number of unemployed persons on the live register for the borough of Bethnal Green at the latest available date;...

  • Birmingham (Transferred Workers). (8 speeches)

    38. asked the Minister of Labour if, in view of the number of unemployed in the city of Birmingham and, particularly, in the Deritend Division, he will consider the advisability of cancelling the...

  • Court of Referees, Glasgow. (2 speeches)

    39. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that certain members of the workpeople's panel on the court of referees in Glasgow, and particularly women members, had never been invited to sit...

  • Benefit Claims. (17 speeches)

    40. asked the Minister of Labour, if he is aware that persons who have unemployment claims throughout the country, and particularly in Glasgow, are asked to appear before an official called the...

  • Cost of Living (Index Figure). (2 speeches)

    25. asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that the fluctuation of the index number of the cost of living was not more than four points during 1928, he is now pre-pared to...