§ 40. Dr. MARION PHILLIPSasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any provision will be made from public funds to meet the increase in administrative charges to local authorities consequent upon the new duty to be placed upon 1000 them of inquiries into the affairs of unemployed persons no longer in receipt of transitional benefit?
§ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Philip Snowden)It is anticipated that in many cases the local authorities will not need to incur additional expenditure in this connection. It has appeared from discussions with representatives of the authorities that some authorities will desire themselves to bear any extra expense they are put to. In other cases, however, they will be unable to bear it and provision will be made by Order in Council for the Minister of Labour to make them a grant in respect of approved additional expenditure.