(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT) SECRET COPY NO. L.P.(43)48 3rd March, 1943. WAR CABINET. LORD PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE APPLICATION OF SECTIONS 1 AND 2 OF THE DETERMINATION OF NEEDS ACT, 1941, TO THE POOR LAW. VIEWS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES. Memorandum by the Minister of Health. 1. I was asked by the Lord President's Committee, at their meeting on the 26th February, to circulate a statement of the views of the Local Authorities on the extension to Public Assistance of the provisions of the Determination of Needs Act, so far as they are known (L.