asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will list in the Official Report the numbers of ballot papers declared invalid at the parliamentary election on 28th February 1974, constituency by constituency, together with the figures for different categories of invalidity.

I am sending my hon. Friend the information, and a copy is being placed in the Library.

Approximately 1,100 employees of Kirkby Manufacturing and Engineering Co. Ltd., formerly IPD (Industrial) Ltd., have been paid unemployment benefit for days they have not worked. The payments were made under the normal provisions of the National Insurance Act 1965.