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Metropolitan Labour Yards

Volume 157: debated on Thursday 24 May 1906

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To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether any metropolitan boards of guardians were among those with which he recently communicated respecting the closing of their labour yards; if so, will he state the names of those boards; whether before making these communications he had informed himself respecting the state of unemployment in the districts concerned; and whether any of the boards, and, if so, which have closed their labour yards in consequence of his communications.Answered by Mr. John Burns.) I do mot find that any communication of the kind referred to has been made to boards of guardians in the metropolis.