HC Deb 27 February 1924 vol 170 c468
71. Mr. ERNEST BROWN

asked the Minister of Labour whether any statistics are in the possession of his Department showing the actual weekly budgets of agricultural workers' wives in English counties?

Mr. SHAW

No budgets showing the expenditure of agricultural workers have been collected by my Department.

Mr. BROWN

Does not the right hon. Gentleman think it desirable, in view of the present agricultural depression and the uncertainty about the means in agricultural workers' homes, that his Department should take some interest in the villages of the country?