HC Deb 21 March 1911 vol 23 cc374-5W
Sir CLEMENT KINLOCH COOKE

asked the President of the Local Government Board the number of paupers relieved in the United Kingdom for the years 1890 and 1909 respetively; the sum expended on Poor Law relief in the same years; the number of persons emigrated out of funds raised under the provisions of the Unemployed "Workman Act, 1905, and the gross amount of money expended on such emigration; the net amount after deducting moneys returned by the emigrants; the number of emigrants other than children, orphans and deserted, emigrated under the provisions of the Poor Law and the cost of such emigration in the years 1890 and 1909 respectively; the number of children, orphans and deserted, emigrated by boards of guardians, and the cost of such emigration in the years 1890 and 1909 respectively?

Mr. BURNS

The mean number of persons classified as paupers in the United Kingdom was, for the year ended Lady Day, 1890, 976,573, and the year ended Lady Day, 1909, 1,136,084. The expenditure on poor relief for the year 1889–90 was £10,024,113, and for the year 1908–9 £17,334,840. According to the latest figures 16,317 emigrants and dependants have been emigrated out of funds raised under the provisions of the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905, the gross cost being £130,048. No complete information with regard to moneys returned by the emigrants is available. In England and Wales seventy-two emigrants other than orphan or deserted children were emigrated under the Poor Law in 1890 at a cost of £271, and 213 at a cost of £1,433 in 1909. The number of orphan or deserted children emigrated under the Poor Law in England and Wales was 375, at a cost of £4,191 in 1890, and 422 at a cost of £6,531 in 1909. No statistics of persons emigrated under the Poor Law in Scotland are available. In Ireland, so far as my information goes, 533 persons were assisted to emigrate in 1890, under the Irish Poor Belief Acts, at a cost of £880, and twenty-two persons at a cost of £69 in 1909. I am unable to distinguish the number of orphan or deserted children, if any.