MR. JOHN WILSON (Falkirk)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will order an Inquiry into the conditions of the enamel industry with a view to dispense with the use of lead, so that the large percentage of deaths through lead poisoning may be averted?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYThe hon. Member will, no doubt, remember that the various lead industries formed the subject of an exhaustive Inquiry by a Departmental Committee three years ago, as a result of which stringent special rules have been established for factories where lead is used in plate enamelling. Considerable difficulty is, however, experienced in getting the workpeople to obey the rules, nor am I satisfied that they might not be amended, I propose, therefore, to have a further Inquiry made.