Catalogue description Ministry of National Insurance, predecessors and successors: Unemployment Insurance Division, predecessors and successors: Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance, files

This series contains files of the Labour Exchanges Department of the Board of Trade, the Employment, Employment and Training, Unemployment Insurance and Finance Departments of the Ministry of Labour, and the Unemployment Insurance Division of the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors relating to the general and financial administration of the unemployment insurance scheme.

Questions covered include insurability, the right to benefit (including queries over strike action), out-of-work donations, traditional and extended benefit, fraudulent claims, dependants' allowances and the provision of special schemes for certain industries.

The series also includes correspondence, circulated papers, minutes and reports of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee.

Files relating to the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance, 1930-1932, are in PIN 83

For unemployment statistical returns, see LAB 85

Board of Trade, Labour Department, 1910-1913

Board of Trade, Labour Exchanges Department, 1912-1917

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Ministry of Labour, Finance Department, 1919-1939

Ministry of Labour, Unemployment Insurance Branch, 1925-1934

Ministry of Labour, Unemployment Insurance Department, 1934-1939

Ministry of National Insurance, Administrative Divisions, 1944-1948

Ministry of National Insurance, Unemployment Insurance Division, 1944-1948

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968

From 1964 Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance