HC Deb 28 February 1890 vol 341 c1496
MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAM (Lanark, N.W.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if it is to be understood that the British delegates at the Berlin Conference will be debarred from discussing the International limitation of the hours of labour (adult), while the representatives of Foreign Powers will be empowered to do so?

SIR J. FERGUSSON

I do not admit any such understanding as the hon. Member supposes. I stated, in reply to the hon. Member for West Nottingham, the terms in which Her Majesty's Government replied to the preliminary proposal of the German Government. The detailed programme has now been received, and as soon as it has been considered by Her Majesty's Government the whole of the correspondence will be laid upon the Table.