§ Mr. CLOUGHasked the President of the Local Government Board the number of old age pensioners resident in the Skip-ton Parliamentary Division and the annual cost of the pensions paid to them during the last administrative year; what decrease there has been in the number of persons over seventy years of age receiving indoor and outdoor relief in the different unions of that Parliamentary Division; and what has been the consequent saving in the poor rates of those unions?
§ Mr. BURNSI am not in a position to give the information asked for in the first part of the question. Statistics as to old age pensioners are not available for areas other than counties, county boroughs, and Metropolitan boroughs. The following table shows for the four Poor Law unions comprised in the Skipton Parliamentary Division the decreases and increases (a) between the 1st January, 1910, and the 4th January, 1913, in the number of persons over seventy years of age receiving relief, and (b), between the years ended March, 1910, and March, 1912, in the expenditure on the maintenance of indoor paupers and on out-relief:—
Name of Poor Law Union. Decrease (-) or increase (+) between 1st January, 1910, and 4th January, 1913, in the number of persons over 70 years of age receiving relief. Decrease (-) or increase (+) between the years ended March, 1910, and March, 1912, in the expenditure on the maintenance of indoor paupers and on out-relief. Indoor Paupers. Outdoor Paupers. Maintenance of Indoor Paupers. Outdoor Relief. £ £ Clitheroe - 14 - 42 - 185 - 317 Sedbergh + 2 - 5 - 41 - 67 Settle - 6 - 31 + 163 - 290 Skipton + 9 - 76 + 346 - 415