HC Deb 18 March 1886 vol 303 c1178
MR. THOMAS ROBINSON (Gloucester)

asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, having regard to the large and increasing number of people who conscientiously object to have their children vaccinated, he will bring in a Bill this Session to repeal the Compulsory Clauses of the Vaccination Act?

THE PRESIDENT (Mr. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN) (Birmingham, W.)

, in reply, said, he could not undertake to bring in a Bill this Session to repeal the compulsory clauses of the Vaccination Act; but he understood that his hon. Friend the hon. Baronet the Member for the Barnard Castle Division of Durham (Sir Joseph Pease) had a Motion on the Paper with reference to the Vaccination Act, which, when it was reached, would afford an opportunity for discussing the whole subject.