I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state what portion of the £14,000,000 spent on Poor Law administration last year was devoted to the payment of salaries of officials.

The sum which was expended in the year ended at Lady-Day, 1906, in respect of the salaries, superannuation allowances, and rations of the officers and servants of the several Poor Law Unions, and which was included in the £14,218,598 expended in respect of the relief of the poor in that year, was —2,478,660.