§ MR. ROGERS (Wiltshire, Devizes)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that all relief given to a husband for or on account of his wife shall by the Poor Law Act, 1834, be considered to be relief given to the husband; and whether, in the event of a pensions committee granting a pension to a married woman on the ground that she cannot therefore be disqualified under the section creating the pauper disqualification by any receipt of relief on the part of her husband, he is now in a position to state whether he will be prepared to confirm the action of such a committee on appeal.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) I am advised that poor relief afforded to or for an applicant for a pension would disqualify the applicant. If, therefore, relief is given to a husband for or on account of his wife, the wife would be disqualified.