HC Deb 17 February 1880 vol 250 c810
SIR ALEXANDER GORDON

asked the Lord Advocate, Whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to introduce this Session a Bill to amend the Poor Law of Scotland?

MR. ASSHETON CROSS,

in reply, said, that his right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Advocate had been engaged in preparing a Bill on the subject, which he would introduce this Session when a convenient opportunity for doing so presented itself.