Written Answers
Relieving Officers
asked the Minister of Health the number of relieving officers and assistant relieving officers employed by the public assistance committees throughout England and Wales
| Year ended 30th September. | Birmingham. | Liverpool. | Manchester. | Leeds. | ||||
| 1926 | … | … | … | … | 4,817 | 2,362 | 894 | 538 |
| 1927 | … | … | … | … | 4,849 | 5,649 | 1,679 | 1,049 |
| 1928 | … | … | … | … | 3,183 | 2,623 | 3,387 | 384 |
| 1929 | … | … | … | … | 3,278 | 1,187 | 2,392 | 780 |
| 1930 | … | … | … | … | 6,829 | 1,022 | 1,588 | 632 |
Unemployment
Woolwich
asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons who were actually employed in Woolwich as a result of schemes initiated by the Woolwich Borough Council through the Unemployment Grants Committee in the year 1929, and the number of persons who are actually at present employed in Woolwich on State-assisted schemes, and the estimated duration of their employment?
No schemes submitted by the Woolwich Borough Council
| Numbers of persons on the registers of the Woolwich Employment Exchange at the dates stated below. | ||||||
| Date. | Men. | Boys. | Women. | Girls. | Total. | |
| 28th November, 1927 | … | 3,159 | 74 | 464 | 110 | 3,807 |
| 26th November, 1928 | … | 2,773 | 62 | 473 | 69 | 3,377 |
| 25th November, 1929 | … | 2,867 | 96 | 692 | 91 | 3,746 |
| 24th November, 1930 | … | 4,003 | 170 | 1,506 | 136 | 5,815 |
Relief (Expenditure)
asked the Minister of Labour the cost of State and rate-aided works for the relief of unemployment for each year since 1920 to date?
at the end of 1929, and the number now employed by the public assistance committees throughout England and Wales
I regret that the information required is not in my possession.
Housing
asked the Minister of Health what is the number of houses completed by the municipality in each of the last five years in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds, respectively?
The following statement gives the number of houses erected with State assistance by each of these municipalities:to the Unemployment Grants Committee were approved in 1929. 210 men were employed on 31st October on five state-aided schemes in the area, which are estimated to last for varying periods up to a year.
asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons registered as unemployed in the Woolwich area for the last convenient date in November, and similar information at approximately the same date in 1927, 1928, and 1929?
The following table gives the information desired:
, pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th November, 1930, col. 680, Vol. 244], supplied the following statement:
| From 1st April, 1920, to 30th September, 1930, grants as shown have been paid from the Exchequer and the Road Fund towards the cost of works undertaken for the relief of unemployment. | ||||||||||||
| — | Financial Year. | |||||||||||
| 1920–21. | 1921–22. | 1922–23. | 1923–24. | 1924–25. | 1925–26. | 1926–27. | 1927–28. | 1928–29. | 1929–30. | 1930.* | Total. | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| (a) Exchequer Grants, in respect of grant - aided schemes to promote employment, approved by the Unemployment Grants Committee or under the Development (Loan Guarantee and Grants) Act, 1929. | 26,636 | 1,698,310 | 570,046 | 1,034,336 | 1,750,102 | 2,134,836 | 1,524,006 | 1,693,373 | 1,763,108 | 1,937,617 | 884,454 | 15,016,824 |
| (b) Grants out of the Road Fund (and during 1920–23, Exchequer Grants), in respect of grant-aided Road, etc., Schemes. | 513,800 | 1,693,690 | 2,581,283 | 2,998,629 | 3,804,059 | 4,927,283 | 4,873,383 | 4,276,009 | 2,283,544 | 2,633,540 | 2,463,400† | 33,048,620 |
| (c) Exchequer Grants in respect of other miscellaneous Schemes, including Land Drainage. | — | 394,892 | 442,564 | 408,920 | 291,366 | 151,595 | 22,798 | — | 800 | 31,351 | 43,813 | 1,788,099 |
* Six months to 30th September, 1930. | ||||||||||||
| † Appropriate. | ||||||||||||
| It should be added that: |
| (1) Information as to the expenditure by the recipients of the grants on the Schemes referred to under (a) is not available; but from 1st April, 1920, to 30th September, 1930 the schemes in respect of which grants from the Exchequer have been sanctioned (and have either been paid or will become payable) are estimated to cost in total nearly £187,000,000. |
| (2) The expenditure by Local Authorities corresponding to the expenditure detailed under (b) is not precisely ascertainable but is estimated to amount in total to a further £18,000,000. |
| (3) Expenditure from sources other than the Exchequer in respect of the miscellaneous Schemes referred to under (c) amounted in total to approximately £900,000. |
| (4) No information is available as to the amount expended by Local Authorities on Schemes for the relief of unemployment which are wholly financed out of rates. |
Plymouth And Devonport
asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons, specifying men, women, boys, and girls, on the Employment Exchanges of Devon-port and Plymouth, respectively, for the month of November, 1930?
| Date. | Men. | Boys.* | Women. | Girls.* | Total. | |
| Plymouth. | ||||||
| 3rd November, 1930 | … | 4,324 | 88 | 973 | 115 | 5,500 |
| 10th November, 1930 | … | 4,380 | 84 | 991 | 109 | 5,564 |
| 17th November, 1930 | … | 4,498 | 139 | 982 | 164 | 5,783 |
| 24th November, 1930 | … | 4,616 | 133 | 973 | 160 | 5,882 |
| Devonport. | ||||||
| 3rd November, 1930 | … | 2,068 | 61 | 447 | 66 | 2,642 |
| 10th November, 1930 | … | 2,073 | 61 | 443 | 64 | 2,641 |
| 17th November, 1930 | … | 2,073 | — | 446 | — | 2,519 |
| 24th November, 1930 | … | 2,106 | — | 459 | — | 2,565 |
| * As from 17th November, 1930, statistics of unemployment among Juveniles at Devonport are included under Plymouth. | ||||||
Museums And Galleries
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury when the forthcoming Bill dealing with the national gal-
The following table shows the number of persons on the registers of the Employment Exchanges at Plymouth and Devonport, respectively, on each Monday in November, 1930:leries and museums will be made available to Members?
The Bill is in the printer's hands, and will be available in the course of the next day or two.