Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 13 March 1929.
Sir Henry Betterton
, Rushcliffe
The hon. Member is really making two statements, both of which are quite unfounded. One that the Regulations were made by us, and secondly that this man was our official. Neither is correct. The hon. Member is asking me to exercise a discretion which I have not got and which was taken away by the Act of 1927. I have no power whatever to review the case or alter the decision.