§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been drawn to the desirability of revising the Regulations (Organisation for Unemployed), 1905, and especially Article V. of the se Regulations, which in terms affects to govern both the so cases in which the central body itself employs and controls the persons working, and also these cases in which it merely finds workpeople for borough councils and other bodies; and whether he will consider the advisability of framing separate regulations for each of the modes in which the unemployed are given work.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSArticle V. of the regulations only applies to cases where the central body themselves provide temporary work or contribute towards the provision of such work. I am not at present aware that it would be desirable to frame separate regulations for these two classes of cases. The Article 73 would not apply at all where the central body merely find workpeople for other bodies without making any contribution towards the provision of the work.
In reply to a further question Mr. BURNS said he would be pleased to receive any statement the hon. Member might forward, but he was bound to say he had not received a single complaint on this particular point.