§ 20. Mr. LANSBURYasked the Minister of Health the number of able-bodied persons in receipt of outdoor and indoor relief in England and Wales on 30th April and 30th May, in 1927 and 1928, respectively?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Sir Kingsley Wood)As the answer involves a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
§ The exact particulars desired by the hon. Member are not available. The average numbers of persons in receipt of 1408 outdoor Poor Law relief in England and Wales, who were classified as persons ordinarily engaged in some regular occupation and the wives and dependent children of those persons, were, in March, 1927, 150,644 men, 129,255 women and 265,786 children, and in March, 1928, 128,446 men, 113,102 women and 239,580 children. The numbers of persons, excluding casuals, in receipt of institutional Poor Law relief in England and Wales on the 1st January, 1927, who were not suffering from sickness, accident or bodily or mental infirmity, were 40,343 men, 18,702 women and 42,206 children. The corresponding numbers on the 1st January, 1928, were 43,017, 18,596, and 40,346, respectively.