§ MR. GALLOWAY (Manchester, S.W.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Patriotic Commissioners have increased the grants given by them per week to widows not receiving assistance from what the Commissioners call overlapping funds, to an amount equal to 1458 that to which they have reduced the total allowance from all sources paid to widows receiving such assistance; and, if not, what steps (if any) the Government propose taking to prevent the Patriotic Commissioners from adding to their already large accumulations by this reduction of grants now given to widows receiving assistance from so-called overlapping funds.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI understand from the Patriotic Commissioners that no arrangements which they have made will lead to the accumulations of the funds which the hon. Gentleman fears.