§ 77. Mr. Shortasked the Minister of Health whether he proposes to follow the example of the Unemployment Assistance Board and issue a circular calling the attention of the officers of public assistance committees to the rise in the cost of living and the need for increasing the allowances of applicants?
§ Sir K. WoodThe law relating to the relief of the poor is administered locally by councils of counties and county boroughs. I believe that public assistance authorities are fully aware of their duty to give relief sufficient to meet the necessities of applicants, but I will take the opportunity of including a reference to this matter among others in a circular which I shall have occasion to issue to local authorities in the near future.