§ Mr. LANSBURYasked the Minister of Labour what amount of income, wages or salary coming into a home where employed and unemployed relatives are living together disentitles an unemployed man or woman or short-time worker from receiving extended benefit owing to the issue of instructions by his Department to Unemployment Insurance officials and committees that extended benefit shall not be paid to single persons living at home with parents who are in a position to maintain them, to married women or married men living with husbands or wives who are in work and whose earnings are sufficient to maintain wife or husband, or to short-time workers whose incomes are such that a refusal of benefit will not inflict hardship?
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDUp to the present this is a matter which has been left to the discretion of the local employment committees to be dealt with in the light of their knowledge of local conditions and the circumstances of the particular case.