§ Mr. T. SMITHasked the Minister of Health the total expenditure incurred in 1257W public assistance to able-bodied poor in Leeds, Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley, for each of the last five years, respectively?
Sir H. YOUNGThe returns furnished to my Department do not show separately
Year ending 31st March— Expenditure on out-relief in money and kind given by the Councils of the under mentioned County Boroughs to persons ordinarily engaged in some regular occupation and their dependants. Leeds. Sheffield. Rotherham. Barnsley. £ £ £ £ 1931 … … 71,930 189,355 13,109 25,816 1932 … … 81,479 295,102 16,118 13,336 1933 (approximate) … … 128,300 436,000 23,900 22,800 The unions which, before the operation of the Local Government Act, 1929, included the areas of the county boroughs mentioned were not co-extensive with 1258W the expenditure on out-relief to the able-bodied poor, but the following statement shows the expenditure on out-relief to persons ordinarily engaged in some regular occupation and their dependants during each of the last three financial years:
those boroughs and exactly corresponding figures cannot therefore be furnished for the years ending 31st March, 1929 and 1930.