Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 14 March 1929.
Mr Arthur Shepherd
, Darlington
Are the Government aware that the number of children at school between the ages of 14 and 15 and the number of old people still in industry at 65 years of age and over, are together almost exactly equal to the number of unemployed, and that the cost of giving a maintenance grant for the children and an old age pension to the older workers would not be greater than the cost of paying unemployment benefit as at present to the unemployed?