HC Deb 03 November 1908 vol 195 cc985-6
*CAPTAIN FABER

I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he will cause a register of names to be kept during the next three and six months at all relief works opened for unemployment throughout the Kingdom showing for how many consecutive days each individual man has worked, with a view to discovering how many genuinely unemployed are in real want of work.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. JOHN BURNS,) Battersea

I think that this information is already in the possession of the distress committees, although they are not required to keep a register in a prescribed form.

CAPTAIN FABER

How is the information collected if no register is kept?

*MR. JOHN BURNS

The distress committee have, I think, clerks who have to fill in forms, a copy of which I shall be pleased to send the hon. Gentleman.

CAPTAIN FABER

Would the forms show how many consecutive days the men work?

MR. JOHN BURNS

I should think so.