§ 43. Mr. HICKSasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that in Area VII of the London Public Assistance Committee, which is an area covering a population of over 800,000, it is the general practice to refuse out-relief to persons receiving unemployment benefit or transitional payment on the ground that those payments are considered to be adequate for the people to live on; and if he will issue a circular to local authorities to secure uniformity of treatment and setting out the views of his Department?
§ The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)This is a matter within the general discretion of the public assistance authority, and I believe that authority, which of course acts for the whole county, to be alive to the importance of 1324 securing a -proper measure of public assistance and reasonable uniformity of administration. The reply to the second part of the question is in the negative.