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Benefit

Volume 236: debated on Monday 10 March 1930

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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.FemalesTotal.Males.FemalesTotal.Males.FemalesTotal.
Fresh and Renewal Claims made.
Blaydon522605826056266754880628
Elswick1,0302581,2881,0262401,2661,3582741,632
Gateshead1,7317232,4541,7385992,3372,0888362,924
Heaton2,0024992,5811,9733832,3562,4506123,062
Hebburn519215407382876688133914
Jarrow1,830741,9041,484681,5521,709661,775
Newcastle2,6208733,4932,4266393,0653,2096733,882
North Shields1,9901322,1221,5271131,6401,6742021,876
South Shields3,2522263,4782,7662212,9872,8993603,259
Wallsend1,0281041,132973991,0721,0621231,185
Willington Quay569245935611257375231783
Dunston360360335335349349
Newburn458314893872441136630396
Walker476476520520620620
Felling3837245549568563465140605
Claims to Benefit Disallowed.
Blaydon637705556044246
Elswick110241347425997831109
Gateshead15164215133491829631127
Heaton66188481351169322115
Hebburn503533523750252
Jarrow419502893724832
Newcastle148481961476421116848216
North Shields7850128523486543185
South Shield.616913063289112241163
Wallsend446502793655358
Wellington Quay25429152171414
Dunston202017172323
Newburn2743145115661768
Walker333332324949
Felling17133025833291948