§ MR. BARNESI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if 1314 he will state the number of persons over the age of sixty-five who are in receipt of poor law relief and the annual cost of such relief.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSAccording to the latest return on the subject the number of persons over sixty-five in receipt of relief in England and Wales was, on 1st September, 1903, 284,265 (excluding casual paupers, lunatics in asylums and persons only constructively in receipt on account of relief given to wives or children). As regards the cost of relief to persons above sixty-five, I can only repeat what I stated the day before yesterday, in reply to my hon. friend the Member for the Tottenham Division, that I am not able to give this information, and that I fear it would not be practicable to obtain it.