§ * SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, during the Recess, the Government will inquire, with a view to legislation, into the practice of fining and of making deductions from wages, the admitted evils of which were the ground of the introduction of the Truck Bill of the late Government?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir MATTHEW RIDLEY, Lancashire, Blackpool)I will give the subject careful consideration during the Recess, both with regard to the possibility of legislation, and to the lines upon which legislation is desirable.