§ MAJOR EDWARDSsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he has any intention to increase the number of Sub-Inspectors of Factories upon the Bleach Works Bill coming into force, and whether any recent Correspondence has taken place with the Inspectors of Factories upon any proposed increase of the staff of Sub-Inspectors; and if so, whether there will be any objection to lay such Correspondence upon the Table of the House?
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, in consequence of the operation of the Bleach Works Bill he had addressed a communication to three Factory Inspectors, in order 416 to ascertain whether any increase would be required in the number of Sub-Inspectors. He had not yet received any answers to these communications, which were not of a strict official nature, so as to permit it to be laid upon the Table of the House.