asked the Minister of Labour the total amount paid for unemployment relief to persons resident in the Chatham and Gillingham, Kent, district during the year 1929?
The amount of unemployment benefit paid at the Chatham Employment Exchange during the year 1929 was about £89,000; there is no Exchange at Gillingham, Kent, and persons resident there would normally claim benefit at the Chatham Exchange. Separate figures are not available of the amount of Poor Law relief afforded to persons resident in the Chatham and Gillingham districts.
asked the Minister of Labour the number of allowed and disallowed claims, male and female, respectively at each of the Tyne-side Employment Exchanges in the months of November, December and January?
Separate statistics of the number of claims allowed are not available, but the following statement gives the total number of fresh and renewal claims made and the number of
Employment Exchange. | 4 weeks ended 11th November, 1929. | 4 weeks ended 9th December, 1929. | 5 weeks ended 13th January, 1930. | ||||||||
Males. | Females | Total. | Males. | Females | Total. | Males. | Females | Total. | |||
Fresh and Renewal Claims made. | |||||||||||
Blaydon | … | … | 522 | 60 | 582 | 605 | 62 | 667 | 548 | 80 | 628 |
Elswick | … | … | 1,030 | 258 | 1,288 | 1,026 | 240 | 1,266 | 1,358 | 274 | 1,632 |
Gateshead | … | … | 1,731 | 723 | 2,454 | 1,738 | 599 | 2,337 | 2,088 | 836 | 2,924 |
Heaton | … | … | 2,002 | 499 | 2,581 | 1,973 | 383 | 2,356 | 2,450 | 612 | 3,062 |
Hebburn | … | … | 519 | 21 | 540 | 738 | 28 | 766 | 881 | 33 | 914 |
Jarrow | … | … | 1,830 | 74 | 1,904 | 1,484 | 68 | 1,552 | 1,709 | 66 | 1,775 |
Newcastle | … | … | 2,620 | 873 | 3,493 | 2,426 | 639 | 3,065 | 3,209 | 673 | 3,882 |
North Shields | … | … | 1,990 | 132 | 2,122 | 1,527 | 113 | 1,640 | 1,674 | 202 | 1,876 |
South Shields | … | … | 3,252 | 226 | 3,478 | 2,766 | 221 | 2,987 | 2,899 | 360 | 3,259 |
Wallsend | … | … | 1,028 | 104 | 1,132 | 973 | 99 | 1,072 | 1,062 | 123 | 1,185 |
Willington Quay | … | … | 569 | 24 | 593 | 561 | 12 | 573 | 752 | 31 | 783 |
Dunston | … | … | 360 | — | 360 | 335 | — | 335 | 349 | — | 349 |
Newburn | … | … | 458 | 31 | 489 | 387 | 24 | 411 | 366 | 30 | 396 |
Walker | … | … | 476 | — | 476 | 520 | — | 520 | 620 | — | 620 |
Felling | … | … | 383 | 72 | 455 | 495 | 68 | 563 | 465 | 140 | 605 |
Claims to Benefit Disallowed. | |||||||||||
Blaydon | … | … | 63 | 7 | 70 | 55 | 5 | 60 | 44 | 2 | 46 |
Elswick | … | … | 110 | 24 | 134 | 74 | 25 | 99 | 78 | 31 | 109 |
Gateshead | … | … | 151 | 64 | 215 | 133 | 49 | 182 | 96 | 31 | 127 |
Heaton | … | … | 66 | 18 | 84 | 81 | 35 | 116 | 93 | 22 | 115 |
Hebburn | … | … | 50 | 3 | 53 | 35 | 2 | 37 | 50 | 2 | 52 |
Jarrow | … | … | 41 | 9 | 50 | 28 | 9 | 37 | 24 | 8 | 32 |
Newcastle | … | … | 148 | 48 | 196 | 147 | 64 | 211 | 168 | 48 | 216 |
North Shields | … | … | 78 | 50 | 128 | 52 | 34 | 86 | 54 | 31 | 85 |
South Shield. | … | … | 61 | 69 | 130 | 63 | 28 | 91 | 122 | 41 | 163 |
Wallsend | … | … | 44 | 6 | 50 | 27 | 9 | 36 | 55 | 3 | 58 |
Wellington Quay | … | … | 25 | 4 | 29 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 14 | — | 14 |
Dunston | … | … | 20 | — | 20 | 17 | — | 17 | 23 | — | 23 |
Newburn | … | … | 27 | 4 | 31 | 45 | 11 | 56 | 61 | 7 | 68 |
Walker | … | … | 33 | — | 33 | 32 | — | 32 | 49 | — | 49 |
Felling | … | … | 17 | 13 | 30 | 25 | 8 | 33 | 29 | 19 | 48 |