§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked the President of the Local Government Board whether the statement he made in the report of the proceedings under the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905, is correct, that he sanctioned the employment of £7,000 odd out of a Grant from the public Exchequer for the relief of unemployment for emigration purposes?
§ Mr. BURNSThe actual cost of the emigration or removal of persons defrayed out of the Parliamentary Grant for the year ended 31st March last was £7,977. I may add that the money voted by Parliament is for the purposes of the Unemployed Workmen Act, and one of those purposes is emigration.
§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he will give the Acts of Parliament, and the Sections thereof, conferring on local authorities powers as to the raising and spending of moneys out of the rates for the purposes of emigration; and whether those Sections limit the expenditure of moneys so raised to emigration within the Empire?
§ Mr. BURNSThe Statutes conferring powers on local authorities to expend moneys out of the rates for the purposes of emigration are: Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, Section 62; Poor Law Amendment Act, 1844, Section 29; Poor Law Amendment Act, 1848, Section 5; Poor Law Amendment Act, 1849, Section 20; Poor Law Amendment Act, 1850, Section 4; Union Chargeability Act, 1865, Section 16; Local Government Act, 1888, Section 69; Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905, Section 1. In no instance is the Statute limited to cases of emigration within the Empire.