Orders of the Day — Unemployment.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 2 March 1933.

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Photo of Sir Henry Betterton Sir Henry Betterton , Rushcliffe

About £7,000 or £8,000 of the £25,000 will be devoted to assisting the National Council of Social Service in what we may call its administrative work—in other words, in enabling it to assist voluntary organisations, as for instance by preventing mistakes made in one place from being repeated in another, and in enabling it to collect information and, in general as I have said to guide and assist voluntary effort. It is proposed to grant £15,000 of that sum to enable the Council to provide assistance in promoting, in areas suffering from severe and prolonged unemployment, schemes of occupation for unemployed persons, either directly or through the organisation of national or regional bodies which they may invite to act on their behalf.