§ MR. TULLY (Leitrim, S.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he can state what was the amount fixed as the proportion of superannuation allowances to be paid boards of guardians from the Probate Grant in 1889–1900, and what was the amount paid the unions from the Probate Grant for superannuation allowances for the year ended Michaelmas, 1900.
§ MR. WALTER LONGThe question appears to be founded on a misapprehension. An annual sum is paid by the council of each county outside London to the boards of guardians in the county for the costs of the officers. The sum is that which the Local Government Board certified to have been expended by the guardians during the financial year ended the 25th March, 1888, on the salaries, remuneration, and superannuation allowances of the officers (other than teachers in poor-law schools), and on drugs and medical appliances. The grant is a fixed one, and no separate payments are made out of it in respect of superannuation allowances.