§ MR. BRIGGSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If the opinions of the District Inspectors of Factories have been taken on the alterations of the existing Law proposed by the Factories and Workshops Bill either of this Session or the last; and, if so, whether he will kindly lay them upon the Table of the House?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, the questions put by the Royal Commission to the several district inspectors of factories were of such a character as to elicit all the information they could give upon the general subject, and the answers given were printed at length in the Blue Book. All communications since then were of a private and conversational character. Therefore there was nothing in them that he could lay on the Table of the House.