Captain Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, former MP, Renfrewshire Western

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Orders of the Day — Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934. 22 Jul 1936

Can the hon. Member inform the House of the number of people concerned?
Orders of the Day — Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934. 22 Jul 1936

The hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) can speak on this subject with exceptional knowledge and as one who by his own exertions has done a great deal to assist unemployed men who are in difficulties over the amount of their benefit. Some of his remarks implied that he felt a doubt as to his usefulness in public life, but I am sure that hon. Members who are acquainted with his part of the...
Orders of the Day — Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934. 22 Jul 1936

I am obliged to the hon. Member for his explanation, and I take it that he does not dissent from my statement that his proposed scales are not unrelated to the existing level of wages. Let us consider the case of an unemployed man with a wife, and three children aged 13 years, 11 years, and nine years respectively. Under the hon. Members proposed scale, that family would receive 45s. a week....