§ Sir A. MONDasked the Minister of Labour whether his attention has been drawn to the resolution passed by the Town Council of Dunstable, requesting that, in view of the great number of un-remunerative works which many local authorities could put in hand to improve their districts which would not ordinarily, he carried out, and taking into consideration the large amount of money paid away weekly in unemployment benefit from which the community gets no return, he will permit any local authority to employ any of those in receipt of the unemployment benefit and hand over to the local authority the benefit due to those so employed towards their wages, or permit the amount due to count as part of such wages and whether he proposes to take any action?
Sir A. STEELMAITLANDI have not seen this resolution, but the point raised is one with regard to which I gave a reply on 6th May to the hon. Member for Middlesbrough West (Mr. T. Thomson), of which I am sending a copy to the right hon. Member