MR. CATHCART WASONTo ask; Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the fact that the extension of the Pension Fund to aged persons actually in receipt of Poor Law relief (approximately) would be £3,000,000, and that the local rates would be relieved: to this extent, some deduction could, in the meantime, be made from national contributions to local rates in respect of such relief.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) As I informed my hon. friend in answer to a Question which he put to me in the House on Thursday last, the case of persons at present in receipt of Poor Law relief cannot be dealt with to any advantage before the Report of the Poor Law Commission has been received and considered.