19. Captain BENN (for Mr. T. THOMSON)asked the Minister of Health the total amount of poor relief paid to able-bodied unemployed from the date of the Armistice to the present time?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINFigures based on the classification of "able-bodied unemployed" are not available for the period specified. The total amount of out-relief in money and kind paid to persons ordinarily engaged in some regular occupation and their dependants from the date of the Armistice to the 25th September, 1926, is approximately, £46,000,000.