§ MR. D. A. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydvil)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his office is engaged on the fiscal inquiry; and whether he has any official information showing what financial response followed the appeal made by the Home Secretary, through the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1842, to the ministers in each parish to effectually excite their parishioners to a liberal contribution towards relieving the severe distress from which many of the working classes suffered; and if the whole sum voluntarily subscribed was distributed in relief of the distress at the time.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers Douglas.) The answer to the first sentence is in the negative. I have no official
§ flags in each year from 1875 to 1902, in the following form—
§ records enabling me to answer the other Questions, but I am having inquiries made.