§ 56. Mr. GEOFFREY PETOasked the Minister of Health what allowance public assistance committees make for dependent children of able-bodied persons claiming outdoor relief or transitional payments?
Sir H. YOUNGPublic assistance committees or guardians committees, where they use scales of relief, are under no obligation to report these scales to me. In the scales within my knowledge applying to able-bodied applicants for relief, the allowance assigned to a child, within various limits of age and size of family, varies from 1s. 6d. to 6s. 6d.
§ Mr. PETOWould it not be entirely wrong to state, or even to suggest, that 2s. is the maximum allowance for a child?
§ Sir J. HASLAMHas it even been suggested in this House that 2s. is the maximum allowance?
§ Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASSIs it a fact that 2s. is the maximum allowance in Lancashire?