Unemployment Benefit

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Pensions and National Insurance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 December 1962.

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Photo of Mrs Margaret Thatcher Mrs Margaret Thatcher Parliamentary Secretary (Ministry of Pensions and Insurance) 12:00, 3 December 1962

In 1961, in Scotland, about £6,840,000 was paid in unemployment benefit, and about £390,000 in National Assistance supplement to unemployment benefit. In respect of the first six months of 1962, the corresponding figures were £4,570,000 and £220,000.