§ Sir A. POWNALLasked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the increase since 1931 in the numbers of able-bodied persons in receipt of out-relief, coinciding with a decrease in unemployment figures, he will supply figures and statistics to show that the improvement in the employment situation is real and is in no sense due merely to a transfer from the unemployment registers to the relief lists?
§ Sir K. WOODNo, Sir. Any such suggestion is fallacious; all but a small proportion, probably less than 10,000 able-bodied men in England and Wales, are included in both lists.