§ Mr. THORNEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total expenditure incurred for public social services under the following Acts of Parliament for the year ending 31st March, for Great Britain, giving each item of expenditure separately: Unemployment Insurance Acts, Insurance Benefit, etc., Transitional Benefit, National Insurance (Health) Acts, Widows', Orphans', and Old Age Contributory Pensions Acts, Old Age Pensions Acts, and Acts relating to the relief of the poor; and the total number of persons directly benefiting from each of the public social services?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThe whole of the information asked for is given in the Return of Public Social Services, which is presented to Parliament annually. The latest issue of the Return (Command Paper 4460/1933) contains the figures relating to the year ended 31st March, 1933. The next issue of the Return, containing the figures for the year ended 31st March, 1934, will be presented, in the ordinary course, as early as possible in the autumn.