§ MR. HOWELLI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether, in view of the uncertainties of the law as regards the relief of the poor and the administration of the Poor Laws, he will introduce a Bill 1274 in the next Session of Parliament to consolidate the law, or, failing that, whether he will cause a Digest of the laws to be prepared, printed, and circulated to Members of this House?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERI will submit the suggestion to the Statute Law Committee, with a view to their seeing whether a consolidation of the Poor Laws can be prepared. But I must tell the hon. Member that the Acts and Orders are very voluminous.
§ MR. HOWELLIs there not a Digest of them at the Local Government Board Offices, and would not that suffice?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERWe have no Digest.