Catalogue description Ministry of Labour: Unemployment Insurance Department and Finance Department: Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance, Registered Files

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Reference: PIN 6
Title: Ministry of Labour: Unemployment Insurance Department and Finance Department: Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance, Registered Files
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.
Date: 1930-1934
Related material:

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

These correspondence files are indexed in LAB 7/295
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

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
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Publication note:

The final report of the c ommission was published in 1932 (Cmd 4185).
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.

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