Mr. BECKETTasked the Minister of Health the amount spent in Poor Law relief in Northumberland and Durham in 1913, 1919 and 1926, respectively; and the numbers in receipt of relief on 1st June in each of these years?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe total net expenditure (other than out of loans) of the guardians of unions in the union counties of Northumberland and Durham on the relief of the poor and purposes connected therewith for the years 1913–14, 1919–20 and 1925–26—the latest year for 1753W which the information is available—was as follows:
Unions in the Union County of Northumberland. Durham. £ £ Year ended: 31st March, 1914 … 201,936 393,362 31st March, 1920 … 341,903 668,728 31st March, 1926 … 835,979 1,808,623 The corresponding figures for the year ended 31st March, 1927, are not yet available.
The number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief (excluding lunatics in county and borough asylums, casuals and persons in receipt of domiciliary medical relief only) in the above-mentioned Poor Law unions on dates on or about 1st June in the years 1913, 1919, 1925 and 1926 was as follows:
Unions in the Union County of Northumberland. Durham. Saturday: 31st May, 1913 … 10,257 22,272 31st May, 1919 … 7,754 18,106 30th May, 1925 … 32,718 64,220 29th May, 1926 … 103,915 332,859