34. Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSONasked the Minister of Health the amount of outdoor poor relief paid to able-bodied unemployed persons between December, 1918, and December, 1926, or the nearest available date?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINFigures based on the classification of "able-bodied unemployed" are not available. 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 December, 1926, is approximately £50,270,000.