§ MR. GEORGE ROBERTS (Norwich)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether, having regard to the near expiration of the time during which assistance may be given to distress committees from the grant of£200,000, and the amount of unemployment still existent, it is the intention of the Government to make a further grant for next year; and whether he can state when the Bill to amend the Unemployed Workmen Act, promised in the King's Speech of last year, will be introduced.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSI am not at present in a position to make any statement as to a grant in the next financial year. For reasons I have previously explained, I do not contemplate proposing legislation to amend the Act.