§ SIR F. CHANNING (Northamptonshire, E.)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has considered the resolution adopted by the Kettering Board of Guardians urging that the deserving aged poor over seventy years of age, who are excluded by having received outdoor relief since 1st January, 1908, should be transferred to the j pensions list where the guardians guarantee the payment to the Exchequer of 90 per cent. of the cost of the pensions, until such time as the changes in the Poor Law now contemplated have been made; and whether he will introduce a supplementary Bill to carry out this object or give his support to a Bill introduced by a non-official Member for that purpose.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) I have carefully considered the resolution referred to, but up to the present I have not received resolutions from any other 374 boards of guardians countenancing the proposal made in the Question, and I have no reason to believe that it would be acceptable to the local authorities through out the Kingdom.