CAPTAIN FABER (Hampshire, Andover)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he can recommend, with a view to discovering the genuine unemployed, that a column should be added in the printed registers for applicants for work on distress committees showing what reason each man gives for leaving the work afforded by such committees.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) The hon. Member will see from the regulations of 13th January, 1906, a copy of which I lately sent him, that the record paper prescribed by them contemplates the entry of a record of the after history of the case, and this entry would properly include such a matter as that referred to in the Question. It is open to a distress committee to enter in the register which they are required to keep, by Article VII. of the Regulations of 10th October, 1905, particulars under this head extracted from the record paper, but I doubt whether it is necessary for me to make any special recommendation on the subject.