HC Deb 25 June 1896 vol 42 c54
SIR HOWARD VINCENT

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, if he has yet succeeded in ascertaining if it is true that in the largest penal establishment in Belgium, a German professor of the art of brush making for the English market has been engaged for the instruction of the prisoners, and that the produce of this branch of manufacture has been added to the export of £400 worth of mats per week, and is now consigned to Great Britain by a circuitous route to make believe that such imports come from free labour?

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. C. T. RITCHIE,) Croydon

No, Sir, but I hope to have further information next week.