§ MR. BUCHANAN (Aberdeenshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the prosecutions and how many of the convictions under the Factory Act at Glasgow, on 16th November, were brought before the Sheriff by the Inspectors' assistants?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. ASQUITH, Fife, E.)The cases were brought before the Sheriff not by the Inspector's assistants, but by Mr. Graves, Her Majesty's Inspector of Factories, who has three assistants helping him in this district in visiting workshops. The prosecutions were founded on visits paid on different days by the assistants, one of whom discovered six firms working illegal hours, a second 12, and a third three. There were thus 21 firms prosecuted, and 22 prosecutions. Twenty-one convictions were obtained, and in the other case the defendant was admonished by the Sheriff.