§ Mr. HAYESasked the Minister of Health if he is now in a position to make a statement with regard to the representations made to him by the West Derby Board of Guardians and the Bootle Borough Council that men in receipt of Poor Law relief be employed by local authorities on 75 per cent. Grant-aided schemes of public utility at trade union rates, towards which the guardians would pay to the local authorities the amount which would otherwise be paid in relief?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI am sending the hon. Member a copy of a letter which has been addressed to the Guardians promising sanction to expenditure of the kind described.