§ 45. Sir C. Osborneasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware that an Italian farm-worker spent 16 months in a Welsh hospital, although there was nothing wrong with him, and drew £4 10s. a week National Insurance, which he sent to his wife in Italy, before being finally deported as an undesirable alien, and that he cost the country about £1,500; if he will investigate waste of public money in this and similar ways in all spending departments; and what steps he has taken since his economic cuts to compel the spending departments to become more economically minded.
§ Sir E. BoyleMy right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has recently sent a directive on public expenditure to all Ministers in charge of spending departments. As regards the first part of the Question, if my hon. Friend will provide particulars of the case he mentions, I will ask my right hon. Friends to look into it.