§ MR. HARMOOD-BANNER (Liverpool, Everton)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if, out of the sum of £105,420 distributed amongst the Distress Committees in the United Kingdom, the Liverpool Distress Committee have received a grant of only 616 £250; and if a Return will be furnished by the Local Government Board showing the grants made to the various Distress Committees, together with a statement of the facts in each case which led the Board to make the grants.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. JOHN BURNS, Battersea)The answer to the first part of the Question is in the affirmative. In determining whether in any particular case a payment should be made out of the Grant, and, if so, to what amount, I took into account all the circumstances affecting it. I could not undertake to furnish a Return showing the facts in each instance which led to a payment being made.
§ MR. HARMOOD - BANNERDoes not the right hon. Gentleman consider a grant of £250 very disproportionate for a population of 800,000?
§ MR. JOHN BURNSThe amount of money that was given in this case was ample for the piece of work proposed. Several of the schemes submitted were of a character for which I could make no grant of money either large or small.