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Ministry of Labour: Unemployment Insurance Department and Finance Department: Royal...

Catalogue reference: PIN 6

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PIN 6

This series contains files of the Unemployment Insurance and Finance Divisions of the Ministry of Labour relating to the proceedings and report of the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance.The papers include correspondence, evidence...

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Reference

PIN 6

Title
Ministry of Labour: Unemployment Insurance Department and Finance Department: Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance, Registered Files
Date

1930-1934

Description

This series contains files of the Unemployment Insurance and Finance Divisions of the Ministry of Labour relating to the proceedings and report of the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance.

The papers include correspondence, evidence submitted including financial, and working papers of the commission.

Related material

These correspondence files are indexed in LAB 7/295

Records of the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance (1930-1932) are in PIN 83

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Ministry of Labour, Finance Department, 1919-1939
  • Ministry of Labour, Unemployment Insurance Branch, 1925-1934
  • Ministry of Labour, Unemployment Insurance Department, 1934-1939
  • Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance, 1930-1932
Physical description

103 file(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Subjects
Topics
Litigation
Labour
Accruals

Series is not accruing.

Administrative / biographical background

The Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance was appointed by royal warrant dated 9 December 1930, under the chairmanship of Holman Gregory KC, to enquire into the provisions and working of the Unemployment Insurance Scheme, and to make recommendations with regard to its future scope, the provisions which it should contain, and the means by which it might be made solvent and self-supporting, and the arrangements to be made outside the scheme for the unemployed who were capable of and available for work.

Publication note(s)
The final report of the c ommission was published in 1932 (Cmd 4185).
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11519/

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