§ Mr. WALKERasked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that in Lanarkshire the Unemployment Assistance Board is applying the means test to the recent wages increase given to miners in cases where the applicant for relief has a member of his family employed in the mines and coming under the recent wages advance; and will he issue instructions to the Unemployment Assistance Board to stop this practice, in order that the miners may get the full advantage of the wages advance which has been granted to them in consequence of the community generally agreeing to an increase in the price of coal?
§ Mr. E. BROWNI would refer the hon. Member to my reply to a similar question put by the hon. Member for Mansfield (Mr. C. Brown) on 20th February.