To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state the number of Poor Law children at present boarded out within and beyond the union, respectively; also the number of committees which exist for the supervision of children boarded out within the union; and the number of children in their care. (Answered by Mr. John Burns.) On January 1st last the numbers of pauper children who were boarded out within and beyond the union were 6,963 and 1,818, respectively. There are 284 authorised committees in respect of children boarded within the union, and the number of the children under their care is about 2,000.