Former MP for East Ham South
I have listened all the afternoon to the oldest inhabitants of certain villages who represent agricultural constituencies teaching the Minister how to conduct his Department. I wish to attack the question from a different angle. I represent what is commonly known as a dormitory constituency in the great borough of East Ham. East Ham South is made up of people who work all over London, going...
The first thing I would impress on the House is that these Commissioners are highly trained men who have been trained in the administration of public assistance and have had years of experience. I know some of them myself, men who have been in my profession and at the Bar and who have had training in it and have a high knowledge of it. The second thing I want to suggest is that there is a...
I can only speak about London where I have administered public assistance myself and have had extensive experience of the public assistance committees. I simply know that the Minister of Public Health has time after time stated that he will not lay down scales. The commissioners have certain limits laid down by law as to how they shall administer transitional relief, and, if they supersede...
They are superseded by order of the Minister when they do not administer the ordinary relief, not according to the scales, but according to the law.
I am astounded when I hear one hon. Member after another on the Labour benches object to the principle of the transitional relief people being classified with the public assistance people. Do they know, and if not may I inform them, that at the present moment in London we have 2,300 applicants who find transitional relief insufficient for themselves and their families in their destitution,...
In claiming the indulgence of the House as one making his first speech, it gives me considerable satisfaction to speak in support of this Bill, having had the honour of being a member of the London County Council for some 10 years. In spite of what has been said about our aspirations, and the parallel that has been drawn between the House and the County Council, my experience has taught me...
31. asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the prosecutions on behalf of the Metropolitan police, conducted at present by a private firm of solicitors, cost the Treasury on an average £40,000 per annum; and whether he will form a special legal department at New Scotland Yard whose duty it would be to conduct police prosecutions, seeing that such department when formed would only...
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