HC Deb 04 November 1908 vol 195 cc1188-90
MR. WALTER LONG (Dublin, S.)

To ask the President of the Local Government Board, what action has been taken to communicate to the central bodies and distress committees established under the Unemployed Act the decision of the Government that the Poor Law and two years' disqualification are removed; how many of the schemes submitted by the Central (Unemployed) Body for London to the Local Government Board have been approved since the recent debate on the unemployed; how many schemes so submitted by the Central Body have not yet been approved; and is there any reason why, after the declaration of the Premier that the rules would be relaxed as far as possible, these schemes should not at once be passed.

(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) An order to amend the regulations under the Unemployed Workmen Act is necessary to give effect to the decision to which the right hon. Gentleman refers. The order is in preparation and will be issued at the earliest date practicable. Before the recent debate took place I had made

Applications for compensation. Nature of malicious injury to cattle. Number of cattle (including sheep) driven on the occasion of each cattle-drive for which compensation was awarded. Amount of compensation granted in each case. Remarks.
£ s. d.
1 Poisoning a heifer — — Dismissed
2 Injury to cattle by cutting their tails — 10 0 0
3 Driving cattle - 6 40 0 0
4 Driving cattle - 10 10 0 0
5 Driving cattle - 127 21 6 0
6 Driving cattle - 120 6 0 0
7 Driving cattle - 112 3 3 0
8 Driving cattle - 9 1 2 6
9 Driving cattle - 121 10 0 6
10 Driving cattle - 210 153 16 6
11 Driving cattle - 174 12 7 6
12 Driving cattle - — — Dismissed
13 Driving cattle - — — Dismissed
14 Driving cattle - — — Dismissed

payments to the Central (Unemployed) Body out of the grant amounting to over £18,000 in respect of four considerable undertakings. I have since approved ten other schemes, three of them provisionally. Further schemes are being matured by the Central Body, and I am prepared to deal with them without delay.