§ MR. HERBERT SAMUEL (Yorkshire, Cleveland)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state what is the percentage of aliens who receive Poor Law relief other than medical relief, and what is the percentage of the population as a whole receiving such relief.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The latest figures I have on this subject, so far as aliens are concerned, relate to July 1st, 1903. On that date the proportion which the number of aliens receiving relief other than medical relief only, bore to the total alien population according to the Census of 1901 was .63 per cent. The percentage of the total population in receipt of such relief on the same date was 2.4.