LORD HENRY LENNOXsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce during the present Session any measure to 896 carry out the Recommendations of Mr. Tremenheere, contained in his Report on "The expediency of subjecting the Lace Manufacture to the regulations of the Factory Acts?"
SIR GEORGE LEWISSir, the Report to which the noble Lord has referred has been for some time on the Table, and I was in hopes that before the Government was asked whether it was their intention to legislate on the subject, there might have been some expression of opinion in this House, or that I should have received some communication from the trade and others interested in the question with regard to the recommendations of Mr. Tremenheere. However, that has not been the case. As far as I am able to form a judgment on a rather technical question, I am favourable to the recommendations in the Report of Mr. Tremenheere; and I shall be prepared to introduce a Bill during the present Session founded on them. I will lay the measure on the Table, and will then see how far it meets the views of the House.