HC Deb 15 March 1894 vol 22 cc332-3
MR. LEES KNOWLES (Salford, W.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce, at an early date, a Bill to carry out the Report from the Departmental Committee on the treatment of inebriates?

MR. ASQUITH

Instructions have been given to the Parliamentary draftsman to prepare a Bill for introduction to Parliament to (tarry out the recommendations of the Report of the Departmental Committee, and my hon. Friend the Under Secretary hopes to introduce the Bill at an early date.

MR. LEES KNOWLES

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will supply, by Return or otherwise, complete information as to the treatment of habitual inebriates in the various cantons of Switzerland?

SIR E. GREY

A Report has just been received, and will be published in the Miscellaneous Series of Reports.