HC Deb 21 July 1908 vol 192 cc1717-8
MR. CLELAND (Glasgow, Bridgeton)

I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether the distress committees in England were informed that no further grants would be made between 31st, March and August, and that their final applications for grants to carry on their work until August must be made before the beginning of April.

MR. JOHN BURNS

Early in March last the Local Government Board informed the distress committees by whom schemes of work had been undertaken which might possibly extend beyond the 31st of that month that no payment could be made out of the grant for 1907–8 after that date. The Board stated that it was not contemplated that a payment should, save in exceptional circumstances, be made from the grant in aid of work carried on after the end of the financial year, but they added that if in any case some further payment was needed by the distress committee to enable them to complete any work then in hand for which a contribution from the grant had been made, an application for that purpose should at once be sent to the Board.

MR. C. E. PRICE (Edinburgh, Central)

What was the actual time of sending out the Circular intimating that the grants would lapse on 31st March?

MR. JOHN BURNS

10th March.

MR. C. E. PRICE

Was alike Circular sent out by the Local Government Board in Scotland?

MR. JOHN BURNS

That Question should be addressed to the Secretary for Scotland.