LOCAL TAXATION ACCOUNTS. Table 83.-Estate, etc., Duties allocated to the Local Taxation Accounts continued. INTERIM REPORT OF THE PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE To be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: Imperial House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2, and 28 Abingdon Street, London, S.W.1; York Street, Manchester; 1 St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120 George Street, The Right Honourable Sir C. A. MONTAGUE BARLOW, K.B.E., M.P., Minister of Labour. SIR, INTERIM REPORT BY KING'S ROLL NATIONAL COUNCIL. The Select Committee of the House of Commons, on whose recommendation the Government decided to set up the King's Roll National Council, and the Local King's Roll Committees, suggested at the end of their report, that if their recommendations for a decentralised voluntary effort did not promise a definite solution of the problem of the employment of the Disabled ExService men by the 1st May last, recourse should be had to some form of compulsion. The General Election, which took place last Autumn, inevitably delayed the adoption of the Committees' recommendations, and the King's Roll Local Committees only came into existence at the end of January, and this Council did not hold its first meeting until the 20th February. As a reasonable time has now elapsed since the work commenced, the Council think it would be desirable that an interim report should be presented to the House of Commons on the progress of their work before the August recess. It would seem more appropriate to sub-divide the Report according to the various subjects with which the Council have had to deal. 1. KING'S ROLL LOCAL COMMITTEES. You sent out invitations to some 300 Local Authorities in the Autumn of last year asking them to set up King's Roll Local Committees and in 222 cases either King's Roll Local Committees, or sub-Committees of the Local Employment Committees, with which the head of the Local Authority is associated, have been formed. The Council understand that in one or two cases no committees have been formed as there is no problem for solution, and they appreciate the fact that in other cases where difficulties of one kind or another have arisen the work is being carried on by the Local Employment Committees in a satisfactory way. 2. KING'S ROLL. When the Council first met they examined the position of the King's Roll and they found that whilst there were some 30,836 firms on the Roll, not less than 3,500 of these were due for removal as either being unable or unwilling to renew their undertakings. In a number of cases the names of these firms would, in the ordinary course, have been removed some months previously, but the Council understand that your predecessor in Office decided it would be better to await their first meeting in order to see how far (11160) Wt. / 2,000 7/23 Harrow G.7. |