§ Mr. HARRISasked the Minister of Health the number of able-bodied persons in receipt of outdoor relief on or about the 1st January, 1925; how many of these people were over 60 years of age; and what were the corresponding figures on the 1st February?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe average numbers of persons ordinarily engaged in some regular occupation who were in receipt of out-door relief in England and Wales in the months of January and February, 1925, with the dependants of those persons, were as follow:
applied to the Goschen Committee for a further loan for Poor Law relief purposes, and that the Committee made it a condition that relief to parents should not be given where the sons or daughters living at home were working for wages; 1335W whether he has considered the hardship involved in the case of Mr. Warren, of 20, Heyworth Road, Forest Gate, who was refused any assistance for himself and wife because his son is employed and earns £2 3s. 4d. weekly; and whether he will consider, as this young man incurs for travelling to and from work, provision for trade union and friendly societies, etc., 7s. 6d. weekly, the alteration of such conditions?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI am sending the hon. Member a copy of the letters addressed to this Board of Guardians in regard to the loan to which he refers. He will see that he has not been quite correctly informed of the conditions attached to the loan. My attention has not previously been called to the ease mentioned in the latter part of the question, but I am not at present aware that it constitutes a good ground for the modification of those conditions.