§ MR. HAROLD RECKITT (Lincolnshire, Brigg)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to a series of articles on the subject of Employers' Liability which have recently appeared in the Sun newspaper, and just issued in pamphlet form, wherein statements are made on the authority of the Board of Trade statistics, that the number of persons killed and injured in industrial accidents during the year 1895, were 4,533 and 27,197 respectively; and whether he will take steps at once to introduce the promised Employers' Liability Bill in order to diminish the risks?
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolI have seen the pamphlet referred to in the Question, and the numbers given are, unhappily, substantially correct. I am unable at present to indicate the precise date when I can introduce the Employers' Liability Bill. I may, perhaps, add, so far as the important question of saving life is concerned, that I shall very shortly introduced a Coal Mines Regulation Bill, which is directly intended for this object.