§ CAPTAIN HOPE (Linlithgow)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of statements which have been made in the public Press and elsewhere, as to the alleged danger of the present flash point, 73 deg., of lamp oils sold chiefly amongst the poor, the Government will be willing to grant an inquiry into the subject of the proper legal flash point of mineral oils at an early date?
§ MR. ASQUITHIt is impossible to deal with this particular point apart from the whole question of amended petroleum legislation. The matter seems to me to be one which could be fittingly investigated by a Parliamentary Committee during the coming Session, with a view to legislation.