§ MR. J. WARD (Stoke on-Trent)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he has any information as to the towns that have established distress committees under the Unemployed Workmen's Act of 1905; and whether he will give a list of such towns and the sum expended by distress committees upon actual work done by unemployed workmen up to the 30th March, 1906.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSThere are seventy-five municipal boroughs and urban districts for each of which a distress committee is required to be established by the Act, and to these fourteen boroughs and urban districts have been added by the Local Government Board on the application of the local authorities concerned. I will send my hon. friend a complete list of the places. I am not at present able to state the sum expended by the committees on work, but I hope to obtain information on the subject in due course.