§ 58. Mr. FREEMANasked the Minister of Labour whether she will consider the desirability of providing the necessary facilities to enable unemployed, and other individuals who wish to do so, to organise schemes of work voluntarily along similar lines to those by which voluntary workers were organised during the late War with the object of providing the essential needs, such as food, clothing, houses, and similar requisites, of all those in the nation who lack them at present?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Lawson)Substantial assistance is already provided for organised efforts on housing, on allotments and smallholdings, and for work of economic value put in hand by local authorities and similar bodies in order to give employment. I am not clear in what particular direction the hon. Member considers it practicable that those efforts could be extended.