§ Mr. C. EDWARDSasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the present system of placing on the localities a large proportion of the cost of meeting the responsibilities of education, housing, maintenance of poor and infirm, unemployed relief, asylums and infectious hospitals, results in these urgent obligations being inadequately met or altogether evaded, to the detriment of the community, and whether he will consider having all these charges placed on the National Exchequer and allocated to local authorities in proportion to the need and requirements of their districts?
§ Dr. ADDISONI am afraid I am not in a position to add to the answer which I gave on the 1st March to a similar question put by the hon. Member for the Frome Division (Mr. Hurd), of which I am sending my hon. Friend a copy.