Includes papers from various individuals on unemployment, including: a Ministry of Labour report on the "Black Country" [Staffordshire] reclamation scheme; Charles Rey, Secretary to the Unemployment Grants Committee, on works for unemployment relief, 1925-1926; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on Scottish oil shale mines; Sir John Gilmour, Secretary for Scotland; a Scottish Board of Health memorandum on the oil shale mines; James Kidd [Conservative MP for Linlithgowshire, Scotland] on the oil shale mines; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, on works for unemployment relief; extracts from replies by the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] to questions in Parliament on unemployment relief; progress reports on unemployment relief schemes, including road development; Edward Wood [later Lord Irwin and Lord Halifax], Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, on land drainage relief schemes; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne], Financial Secretary to the Treasury, on land drainage relief.Other subjects include: the Severn Barrage Inquiry.