§ 42. Mr. STEPHENasked the Minister of Health the number of men and women in receipt of able-bodied relief in England and Wales during the first three months of 1927?
§ Sir H. BARNSTONFigures based on a classification distinguishing "able-bodied" persons are not now obtained. The average numbers of men and women (including young persons over 16 years of age) ordinarily engaged in some regular occupation who were in receipt of domiciliary Poor Law relief during the months of January, February and March, 1927, and the dependent wives of those persons were as follow:
Average numbers. Men. Women. January 177,054 153,800 February 159,451 137,201 March 150,644 129,255
§ Mr. BATEYAre we justified in assuming that the bulk of these cases are men who had the unemployment benefit stopped?