§ Mr. R. YOUNGasked the Minister of Health whether he can say how many boards of guardians are giving less than 18s. per week to necessitous unemployed persons; whether in these cases the inadequate relief given arises from the financial position of the areas concerned; and whether he will in shell cases take steps to provide such assistance as will avert in some measure the evils which lack of food will cause to the future health of the community in these areas?
§ Sir A. MONDAlthough I cannot give the exact number, I understand that there are very few boards of guardians who have adopted a scale of out-door relief which would give the family of an unemployed person as little as, or less than, 18s. a week, and I know of no case in which the guardians have been obliged to give inadequate relief by reason of the financial position of their union. The third part of the question, therefore, does not arise.