SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state the number of children at present boarded out in England and Wales, distinguishing between those boarded out within and those beyond the union.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The number of children boarded out in England and Wales on the 1st January last was 8,372. Of these 6,581 were boarded within the union, and 1,791 beyond the union.