HC Deb 12 February 1929 vol 225 c225
52. Mr. LUNN

asked the President of the Board of Education if he will urge upon committees, national and local, administering the Lord Mayor's fund the necessity of helping unemployed miners to obtain seeds for their allotment gardens?

The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Lord Eustace Percy)

I understand that the Joint Committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund have decided that grants will be available from the fund to enable divisional committees to give assistance towards the cultivation of allotments in distressed mining areas, and that arrangements are now being made to give effect to this decision.

Major COLFOX

Can the Noble Lord say how long it is estimated that it will be necessary to keep this fund in operation?

Lord E. PERCY

Not without notice.