HC Deb 21 July 1920 vol 186 cc2006-8
47. Mr. H. WILLIAMS

asked the Minister of Health the amount raised by rates for Poor Law purposes in the city of Westminister and the boroughs of Wandsworth and Poplar during the year ended 31st March last, and the amounts expended on Poor Law relief by the guardians in each of those areas during the same period?

Sir K. WOOD

As the answer is somewhat long and involves a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

The following is the information:

The City of Westminster and the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar are coterminous with the City of Westminster Union and the Parish of Poplar Borough, respectively. The Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth is comprised in the Wandsworth Union, which also includes the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.

The following particulars, which are for the year ended 31st March, 1925, relate to the union areas:

(1) The amounts received by the guardians from rates towards their expenses (including Poor Law expenses, precepts of joint Poor Law authorities, and other expenses, such as those connected with vaccination, valuation and registration) were:

£
City of Westminster Union 1,255,480
Parish of Poplar Borough 448,654
Wandsworth Union 498,685

(2) The amounts expended by the guardians on the relief of the poor and purposes connected therewith were:

£
City of Westminster Union (including £23,260 contributed, under precept, to the managers of the West London School District) 240,887
Parish of Poplar Borough (including £72,129 contributed, under precept, to the managers of the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum District) 910,874
£
Wandsworth Union (including £27,742 contributed, under precept, to the managers of the North Surrey School District) 446,167

The above-mentioned expenditure does not include any sums contributed by the guardians, under precept, to the managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District, whose expenditure covers public health as well as purely Poor Law expenses:

The amounts of these precepts were:

£
City of Westminster Union 255,959
Parish of Poplar Borough 29,124
Wandsworth Union 105,108

In the case of the City of Westminster and Wandsworth Unions, the expenditure also excludes payments made by the guardians to the Metropolitan Common Fund.