§ MR. JOHN WARD (Stoke-on-Trent)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he has received any request from the town council of Stoke-on-Trent to reconsider the recent refusal of his Department to sanction the establishment of a distress committee under the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905; and what action, if any, he proposes to take in the matter.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) The Board informed the town council of Stoke-on-Trent on 28th October that, on the information then before them, they doubted whether they would be justified in establishing a distress committee for the borough. No further reply or information has been received from the town council; but I have instructed one of my inspectors to make some investigation.