§ Mr. F. GOULDasked the Minister of Labour if he will give information as to the Regulations governing cases where the wife of an unemployed man has been in the habit of taking in one or two lodgers; what percentage of the payment made for board and lodging is regarded as income to the wife for service rendered; and whether the wife's benefit of 5s. is forfeited by such Regulations?
§ Miss BONDFIELDThe position is, briefly, that dependants' benefit would not be payable in respect of the wife unless the house is neither a boarding house nor is occupied for the purpose of letting lodgings, and either the rooms are let unfurnished, the wife performing no services for the lodger, or the lodger is taken into the household and lives as one of the family.