§ LORD JOHN MANNERSsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the intention of the Government, acting on the recommendation of the Inspectors of Factories, to introduce a Bill this Session for the consolidation and amendment of the Law on the subject?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, in reply, that a Commission had been appointed to inquire into the condition of women and children employed in occupations not under the Factory Acts, and that they had made two or three Reports, in accordance with the recommendations contained in the first of which a Bill had been passed extending the operation of those Acts to certain other trades than those to which they previously applied. Their further Reports were under consideration, with the view to giving effect to their recommendations in reference to other trades, and it would, he thought, be inconvenient, until the inquiries of the Commission were concluded, to bring in such a general measure of consolidation as that which the noble Lord indicated.