HC Deb 25 July 1867 vol 189 cc81-2
MR. WILBRAHAM EGERTON

said, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he intends to carry out the recommendations of the Committee on the Factory Act Extension Bill, that a Royal Commission should issue to inquire into the operation of the Bleaching, Dyeing, and Printworks Acts?

MR. GATHORNE HARDY

replied, that he had made inquiries, and he was not sure that it would be necessary to issue a Royal Commission, but it would probably be necessary to have some inquiry made by competent authority.