§ MR. MELVILLE (Stockport)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state the number of Poor Law children at present boarded-out beyond and within the union respectively.
(Answered, by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) On the 1st January, 1905, the numbers of pauper children in England and Wales who were boarded-out beyond the union and within the union were 1,806 and 6,814, respectively. This is the latest information which is at present available.