Report from the Select Committee on Aged Deserving Poor ; together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Aged Poor
- Date:
- 1899
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Credit: Report from the Select Committee on Aged Deserving Poor ; together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Aged Deserving' Poor. [Monday, 24t/; April 1899] :—Motion made, and Question proposed, That a Select Commit- tee of Seventeen Members be appointed to consider and report upon the best means of improving- the condition of the Aged Deserving Poor, and of providing for those of them who are helpless and infirm; and to inquire whether any of the Bills dealing with Old Age Pensions, and submitted to Parliament during the present Session, can with advantage be adopted either with or without amendment—(Sir William Walrond). Amendment proposed, to leave out all the words after the word That, and add the words having regard to the fact that a Royal Commission and a Special Committee have within the last four years reported upon the condition of and the providing pensions for the aged poor, this House considers that further inquiry is not likely to shed further light on the subject, and that the Government should undertake the responsibility of making such proposals as they may deem good —(Mr. Logan). Question piit, That the words proposed to be left out to the word infirm, inclusive, stand part of the Question.—The House divided : Aj^es, 263; Noes, 93. Another Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word infirm, to the end of the Ques- tion—(Mr. Buchanan). Question proposed, That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question.— Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Main Question put, and agreed to. Ordered, That a Select Committee of vSeventeen Members be appointed to consider and report upon the best means of improving the condition of the Aged Deserving Poor, and of providing for those of them who are helpless and infirm; and to inquire whether any of the Bills dealing with Old Age Pensions, and submitted to Parliament during the present Session, can with advantage be adopted either with or without amendment. [Monday, 1st May 1899]: —Mr. Anstruther nominated a Member of the Committee—■ (Sir William, Walrond). Motion made, and Question put, That Mr. Chaplin be one other Member of the Committee —(Sir William Walr(md).^The House divided: Ayes, 254; Noes, 82. Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. Cripps be one other Member of the Com- mittee —(Sir Willia III Wahond). Mr. Speaker, in pursuance of Standing Order 16, after permitting a brief statement against the Motion, put the Question forthwith, That this Debate be now adjourned.—The House divided : Ayes, 136; Noes, 219. Original Question put, and agreed to. Mr. Davitt nominated one other Member of the Committee. Motion made, and Question put, That Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice be one other Member of the Committee.—The House divided: Ayes, 280; Noes, 77. Sir Fortescue Flannery, Sir Walter Foster, Mr. Hedderwick, Mr. Samuel Hoare, Mr. Lionel Holland, Mr. Lecky, Mr, Llewellyn, Mr. Lloyd-George, Mr. A. K. Loyd, Sir James Rankin, Mr. William Redmond, and Mr. Woods nominated other Members of the Committee. That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records. That Five be the Quorum—(Sir William Walrond). [Thursday, 20th July 1899]:—That the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Cottage Homes Bill of the present Session be referred to the Select Committee on Aged Deserving Poor—(Mr. Chaplin). REPORT P- iii PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE p. xiv MINUTES OF EVIDENCE P- 1 APPENDIX ... P- 141](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24399516_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
